Recent content by PenguinJim

I should add, I got Destiny Vanilla first, last month. Great gameplay, but the campaign was sub-Minesweeper and the end-game stuff was horribly limited. The Taken King adds so much stuff, including a campaign and lots of Malcolm Reynolds... it drags a 6/10 game up to a 9/10 game. All it needs...

I gave up waiting, too. Really enjoyed the demo on 360 (Halo Reach's sublime gameplay plus my favourite game feature: loot!) and genuinely expected Destiny to drop on PC Q1/Q2 this year. In the end, I got the best version: the PS3 version! Play online for free! :D Enjoying it very much, but I'm...

Oops - sorry, I had that problem in The Old Blood, not The New Order!

Wow. I've been playing FPSes for decades, since Doom II. I usually play on the hardest difficulty, or if I want to complete a game quickly, the second-hardest. I get through dozens of games every year. I've been accused of using Aimbot in competitive multiplayer FPSes like Counter-Strike. I'm...

The Old Blood (apparently a slightly cut-down reworking of The New Order Edit: I don't mean reworking, do I? I mean, like, all different levels and stuff. Ummm... like a mini-sequel. Like Mysteries of the Sith, I guess?) has been $5 on sale, so I'll be trying that first, and getting The New...

I hadn't realised until I just looked, but The Forest's normal price is only $15 on Steam at the moment anyway. Hmmm.... HMMMMM..... I wonder... can I recommend it at $15? I'm very tight with money. It's definitely worth $10. Yikes. $15?!? I have to remember that Normal People probably spend...

The performance has already been noticeably optimised since the Summer Sale (if I can notice it, then it's definitely noticeable!). Sadly the game itself hasn't been improved - they seem more set on adding new creatures than improving the pacing, the fucking awful XP system, the fucking awful...

No, if you buy South Park: Stick of Truth boxed on PC you'll get a Steam key - it's a Steamworks game. You could use the disc to reduce the amount of game you have to download, or you can chuck it in the bin. :)

I'm still mystified as to why this wasn't released on PC years ago. They had XIII running on PCs before the console launch!

XIII released a couple of months ago, XIII-2 came out weeks ago, and XIII-3 will come out in a few more weeks. The three together will be released as a trilogy pack on Steam, too. I'm waiting for the trilogy pack, personally, as I think we'll see it at 50% off soon after release. Thanks to...

Download? Errr... what's there to download? I've been playing Inquisition for years - all you need is a strong chair, a roll of duct tape and a feather duster.

Don't buy any Steam games you're not going to play within three weeks. They should be the same price in the Christmas sale, and with Steam Summer/Christmas events every $10 spend traditionally gets you something (e.g. a trading card), making it slightly cheaper. Van Helsing was getting some...

Yes, come back to Steam, where there is never, ever any problem with playing a game on launch day... Ah, OK, not Steam since your disagreement with them. Ummm... come back to GOG! They're quite nice. :)

I generally agree, but I find that Steamworks adds some small value to games (ease of cataloguing, playing with friends, Big Picture, trading cards etc) so I would pay slightly more for them. Settled for Watch_Dogs for US$7.42 on Uplay this week, as the Steam version adds nothing to it. Would...

Oh, hello. I miss the Templar's heal, but I seem to have a little less downtime now, and it's certainly helpful when Elites get hexed. ;) (Just a 1080P shot as I was playing on my little laptop in the office)