And everyone else nothing

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I think I will like it but like you said I think people might have exaggerated how good it is.

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it’s a matter of opinion if you think it is a good game, that’s why it has mixed reviews, so you might like it. The dlc is meh

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It’s not a bad game at all, just not as good as past games.

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No it looks great and the story’s amazing… it’s just the gameplay (the shooting) is pretty generic and unsatisfying (In my opinion).

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Bah, SH2 isn’t bad… dislike some of the fog effects but other than that it’s still a blast. SH3 has audio issues with a certain weapon but otherwise is fun.

If you weren’t alive and playing games at the height of survival horror (RE 1-3, Dino Crisis 1-2, Alone in the Dark, etc.) chances are you’ll find it slow and boring.

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When those came out I was still playing Crash Bandicoot and Spyro. Speaking of which, I bought both of those series of games in the last .99 cent sale.

Alone in the Dark is one I’ve been meaning to pick up on Steam. I’m a sucker for a good horror game.

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Alone in the Dark (200X) isn’t good… it’s not “bad” but frustrating as can be due to poor controls. Alone in the Dark 4 is decent but eh… 1-3 can be picked up on GOG for like $5 total.

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On your suggestion I picked up Dino Crisis 1-2, at 99 cents each I’ve got nothing to lose.

After finishing Among the Sleep and Outlast I could use another horror game to play. Need to finish Siren: Blood Curse as well. Looking forward to The Evil Within but haven’t preordered yet…

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Dino Crisis never was “horror” to me. They play like classic Resident Evil with fast moving dinos instead of zombies. Same type of puzzles, etc. DC1 was better than DC2. I still have never gotten a chance to play part 3.

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It’s fine. Needed something new to play anyway.

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Oh they are fun for the era… for a dollar it’s worth it. I bought it again a decade ago for PSX and probably paid $15-$20 each, heh.

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And you’re talking to a guy who plays a lot of point of click adventure games so slow pacing isn’t an issue.

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I’m thinking about downloading the Silent Hill HD Collection, too. I’ve repeatedly heard it was broken, so I’m having serious second thoughts… bugs and glitches aside, are both games at least playable? I loved the original Resident Evil’s, Dino Crisis 1 & 2 and the original Silent Hill(still own it for PS1) and have been wanting to pick this up for sometime, seeings how I missed Silent Hill 2 & 3’s original releases.

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Completely playable. SH2 has bad fog… well it’s not bad it’s just not densely rendered so things that should be hard to see sometimes show up. SH3’s SMG (available only on NG+) has an audio glitch. I’ve put many hours–multiple playthroughs–into both and those are the only two issues I’ve ever seen.

SH2 also has the option to use a new vocal dub that does make that aspect of it much more enjoyable.

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Thanks for the heads up, you probably just sold me on buying it. I was torn between Silent Hill HD and The Witcher 2, and honestly I’d rather get Silent Hill HD at a discount because of the issues it has as opposed to The Witcher 2, which I’d feel better buying at it’s standard price compared to Silent Hill, besides that, I have a strong feeling The Witcher will be on sale again in the coming months and this might be the last time to pick pick up Silent Hill at a discount.

So it look like I’m picking up The Walking Dead Season 2 Season Pass, Portal 2 and Silent Hill HD, solid choices I think.

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Bugs and glitches aside they are very playable.

Keep in mind it takes a little getting used to, because the camera is fixed in the environment, leading to awkward movements.

Absolutely worth playing and still playable. It’s writing was way ahead of it’s time. It’s use of abstract symbolism is unparalleled in gaming, and as far as I’m concerned, 2 hasn’t been even close to being matched in the horror genre.

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they are playable, but i understand that the problems go pretty deep. the main reason that I am avoiding the HD remake is that there are changes that alter the narrative and specific moments from the original. as a game that is all about the story and the atmosphere, i would not want anything changed.

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He has until End of Day tomorrow…

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Walking Dead Season 2 and Wolf Among Us are both coming to disc… October for Wolf if I recall, not sure if there’s been a date set for Walking Dead Season 2

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I would wait for TWAU to come to disc, but you should definitely get The Walking Dead 2 season pass now that it is on sale.

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both seasons of walking dead and the first wolf among us season are coming to Xbox one on disc and 360 on disc sometime later this year. From the listings on gamestop both TWD seasons are Oct 14 and TWAU is Nov 18

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Yes, Microsoft likes to go out on a whimper…

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thx, for get these deal there joke.

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yes

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One more may pop up… I don’t think any other day only had 4 games but needless to say if there was a fifth it would most likely be bad.

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53 on Metacritic, horrible frame rate, low res textures, rancid AI… should I continue? 😛

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I don’t care about metacritic but the rest seem like trouble.
Shame there’s no real information on that game.

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I got the game on steam since its not available on my xbox live region, and i have to say its mindless brutal fun with badass soundtrack and its coop mode is hella fun

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The PC version is apparently quite good, it’s the console versions that are abysmal.

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And get the DLC For Skyrim

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Played Silent Hill for the first time again since the PS2 days. That game had me bored to tears.

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Haha, my nephew said the same thing. He took the plunge a week or two ago and is infuriated by the movement speed.

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Thanks. It seems a very good selection. May I ask, if your choice would be in this order ? I heard Skyrim is huge in scope and freedom; is Witcher 2, as a RPG, more “accessible” or simple ?

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Get

Darksiders II plz plz

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Is it that good ?😉

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It’s one of those love or hate games… I’m more in the “hate” category personally. 😛

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Witcher 2 is “accessible” on the easiest difficulty but an extreme challenge after that. The vanilla Skyrim will get you well over a hundred hours. I’ve not played Dishonored to completion (it’s short and I have a rule over how much I spend per hour of gameplay), Silent Hill 2 is one of my all time favorite games, Deus Ex Human Revolution is just phenomenal if you’re into dystopian cyberpunk, the two Fallout games aren’t as good as the Elder Scrolls games but still fun. They’re more FPS than RPG though.

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So Witcher 2 and Deus Ex would be ahead. Your advices confort what were only intuitions. The Witcher would do an interesting medieval adventure and I will surely play Deus Ex for the science-fiction quality. It does a good balance.
(Maybe you will have helped others to choose here, too)
Thank you very much for the details.

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Quite welcome mate.

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Thank you to answer. I think the question was interesting to ask for everyone, as a good suggestion add to the pleasure of discovery.
Personnally, while I think every genre worth a look, I tends to appreciate a game at first for its visual esthetic, clarity, pleasure to play.

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Definitely Deus Ex or Witcher 2 then… Deus Ex’s graphics are admittedly a little weak but the style makes up for it and the story is top notch.

Witcher 2 is probably the most beautiful game on the system.

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Indeed. Your choice seem excellent. I believe it, after seeing some images from Witcher 2. Thanks.

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Thank you. That selection would do an instant very good library.
May I ask, which ones would you suggest first ? If we would have to chose?

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Deus Ex
Portal 2
Dishonored
Witches 2
Skyrim+dlc
Fallout 3
Then whatever else.

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Thanks. It is really appreciated. The last day will be easier, now.
Hélas, if this space would not be too narrow, I am sure asking “why” would have made a very interresting conversation to develop. Thanks again.

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Deus ex is a breath of fresh air. It’s like a mix decent shooter and (on par with Blacklist) stealth with environments open like Dishonored. Lovely visuals and skills. Awesome take downs. Choices choices choices. One of my all time favorite games ever. Speaking of Deus Ex and Blacklist, once you hear Jensen and go through the game, you’ll never look at Kobin the same again.

Portal 2 is funny and very clever with it’s puzzles and allows you to bring a friend along with couch coop. You should start with the first though if you haven’t played it.

Dishonored can be a stealth game or hack first person hack and slash. Junk story but man there really are several routes to your objectives. AI isn’t as predictable as in most other games either.

Witcher 2 has a pretty good story and characters but the combat it hit or miss with it’s audience. You either like it and enjoy it, hate it but deal with it for the story, or hate it and don’t touch the thing. It should at least be given a shot.

Skyrim is just magnificent. Easy to get lost doing your own thing from doing the surplus of side quest that even include a talking dog, to just roaming around killing for fun. This is like a “lose yourself in your own adventure” kind of thing like Minecraft.

Fallout 3 is a decent game. Prefer it to New Vegas though it’s gameplay isn’t for everyone. It has a good mood going and if you played any other open world RPGs, you know what your in for, and also you don’t

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Very interresting; I understand better. Thank you to have taken the time to explain what makes them singulars.
Now you raised my interest about each. Only the time tells me that playing all of them would be ambitious.

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Especially since they are all at least 15 hr games haha. And your welcome
Hope you enjoy them (whichever ones you choose).

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35 bucks full of 100s of hours of entertainment not including the skyrim dlc.

Skyrim plus dlc
Fallout 3
Gears of War 3
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
Deus Ex Human Revolution
Fallout New Vegas

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Is darksiders one recommended to have been played before the second?

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not on sale but II It is yes right now get it now. you well naver see them again for that price.

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Yeah I’m deciding between this and Witcher 2. I have money for other games but i want all the dlcs so that is why i don’t want FNV or Skyrim. I was wondering that if i have not played darksiders one should I?

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Darksider and Witcher seems very different.
I have yet played neither of them, but if an opinion interests you, between both, I would choose Witcher 2. It seems more varied, colorful, and shows humans, while Darksider seems more dark, showing several kinds of demons in an horrific ambiance.
It is only a subjective opinion, but you could look at some gameplay videos to see and follow your taste.

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Oh God, you’ve The Witcher all wrong. It’s about as dark as it goes. Witcher’s are essentially bounty hunters for monsters in a world of racism and classism and at the bottom of all the classes are the witchers. They are despised by humanity for being mutants and don’t fit in with the elves. Dwarfs don’t much mind them… well not Geralt anyways. Humanity in the world of The Witcher is about as morally bankrupt as you can get.

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Oh ! Thank you to precise.
That is why I say “it seems”: I did not played it yet and only saw a video that was not representative, after all. Thank you for rectifying the facts. But visually, is not it less “horrific” as an ambiance than Darksiders?

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Visually, I suppose… Darksiders is cartoon-like which I can’t find “horrific.” Witcher aesthetically looks like a medieval European-like country.

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If you know anyone with the collectors edition of either of those games you can install all the DLC, it’s DRM free.

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Painkiller Black Edition, now that was a fun game! $9.99 on GOG!

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yep, as I said, there are some gems. And I hope people who haven’t played them use this chance to do so.

for me, most of the games I am interested in are the ones I already own or have played through before.

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Should I play Darksiders 1 before 2? Is it recommended story wise?

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just get II much better.

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ok thanks.

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Just wait the 1th Coms on Sale.

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I hate to buy used but it is only $10 used at gamestop so i might just get it that way

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Act 2 & 3 are different… there’s actually an achievement for seeing all the ways it unfolds.

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Honestly I heard the DC is kind of buggy so I avoided it. I love the franchise but if having The Missing Link as an independent episode makes it run better it’s worth it to me to keep it separate.

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Oh i never knew that the DC was that buggy might have to change my mind. Thanks. I just prefer sometimes to get the complete/GOTY editions cause they are usually a lot cheaper. That’s why i don’t plan on getting Fallout NV in the sale. I can get it for 20 vs buying it now and its DLC for like 45$

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I actually picked up NV but I owned the GotY edition… now I just don’t need to worry about discs. 😛

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smart

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Tong’s mission gets integrated if you buy it as DLC. The Missing Link is 2-4 hours, good for a play-through but not mind-blowing and doesn’t really do much for the story. It takes place during a point in the story where the narrative literally fades to black and you wake up at another locale so you can quite literally wake up in the game, save, exit to the main menu, play Missing Link, then load up the save where you left off.

I almost bought a WiiU for the DC of Deus Ex. I’ve been a fan since Warren Spector and his team made the first one… Hell, I even liked the second one, haha.

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I don’t know if there was a patch but directors cut was buggy as hell on all platforms except wiiU. Get the original. It’s a super amazing game (minus boss battles) and you can easily forget the dlc for now. It’s not required but you can get it later if you like the game. It’s one of my favorites. Open levels like Dishonored with your choice of first person shooter or (better than) blacklist stealth, or a mix of both with flashy lethal and non lethal takedowns and a host of skills and abilities, plus when you mod it to have all of the skills from the get go, it doesn’t break the game, but really makes it fun.

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Just finished the directors cut a couple of days ago and it didn’t have any bugs. Obviously though you could play it and have a different experience and it al be buggy.

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Maybe a patch then because it had a rocky release with tons of forums about bugs for the different versions. I haven’t personally played the DC but have had the special edition of the original since day 1.

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No as I said the more m$ continues with this kind of s**t not based on one sale or one game I have picked up a couple of games over past week of sales but they’re continued over pricing of on demand games and weak offers is making me seriously consider returning to ps as I was before 360. Atleast I would get additional gameplay of my preferred games

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Why threaten to do it, and not just do it? We’re all a bunch of strangers and don’t care if you go to one console or another, nor does Microsoft.

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Hardly a threat mico$oft hardly likely to care about one customer switching to sony was just saying.

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I doubt it. People complain all the time, and make “Threats” because something doesnt go their way. Hes going to stay on Xbox, because his friends are on that.

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This is the first time I have ever complained on this and was only my second ever comment I dont have money problems though thanks for the life advice. At the end of the day like everyone else on here I spend plenty of money on xbox forgive me if I feel this also gives the right to have an opinion or to exercise free will.

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Personally never been into pc gaming apart from football (soccer) management games

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it was merely an example I could have picked several games over the past seven days as an example. And in the uk it can be purchased for £10. My comment was not solely in relation to mw3 but the overall sales of the past few months. And my comment about ps4 was again not just down to disappointing sales. Fs

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I’d still get the PS4 though regardless. Love my PS4 as this time around the PS is my main source of gaming unlike xbox last gen

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New maybe but stop into gamestop in the u.s. And MW3 used is $6.99

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I haven’t stepped into a gamestop since ghosts released at midnight. Never will step into another gamestop as there is no need to as id rather shop via internet/ or the retro stores around me.

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I have to bounce between. Try buying Endless frontier (DS title) on ebay, then check Gamestop. $20 gamestop, $60-$110 for the out of print game. Same for some Phoenix wright games. I go to GS only when they beat all options. I wish I knew of small game stores here in San Antonio😦

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That sucks i hated dealing with GS. Try looking up Fallout Games or Play N Trade in your area

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Alright. Thanks for the heads up. I know GS has some bad rep with customer service. The one I go to is alright I guess. I’ll keep an eye out for those other stores. Thanks again!

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I bought it at Gamestop two weeks ago for about 7 bucks

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Plus it’s a super fun game!

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Exactly, for as short as the main mission is, it’s definitely worth $10.

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Will defo get it if it has a proper discount here in Aus.

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Yeah I was really hoping they Bioshock Infinite season pass for sale well maybe next time:(

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😥
Now if I +1 your comment, does that mean I like that the sale is over and they didn’t make it?

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DMC4 has been on sale before too… several times.

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