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RenegadeRocks said:
The game remains tough throughout. Your first hour experience can happen anytime if u stop paying attention to ur food, ur ammo, etc. its not a shooter, its a world where u survive. You don't shoot whatever u see, you hardly have ammo for that.even when you shoot, you stop, peek around the corner n shoot to keep yourself covered. The systems are very well done and very balanced. Its the very opposite of bad game design. Its fantastic game design, but u have to learn the rules and live by them. The rules aren't rocket science either: its a survival game.
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lol, I didn't play Stalker, I simply ran around the beginnings and didn't see much wrong besides those military checkpoint dudes with lax rules of engagement ; game looked cool but the framerate was low on my system.
I remember Operation Flashpoint, though. While themed around miltary missions and you had teammates, it was hilariously unforgiving. I didn't go very far, managing to complete the first two missions would occupy and entertain you already. Back then most other shooters were still arcade shooters.
 
AlNets said:
Silly Canada <-> US <can'tbuydigitalstufffromamazon.poop.com>. :mad:

This isn't the crisis I want!
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You should do what rest of the world is doing, use fake address preferrably in state that doesn't have tax for online shopping, like Alaska. Amazon doesn't give crap on what address or country or continent the credit card used it registered to
 
Kaotik said:
You should do what rest of the world is doing, use fake address preferrably in state that doesn't have tax for online shopping, like Alaska. Amazon doesn't give crap on what address or country or continent the credit card used it registered to
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Gah... Forgot to set the default address to the US one. I actually have a legit address (relative). :p
 
And to think I got my 7950 for $200 less than a year ago. It is strictly used for gaming duties, and very good at that. Guess I could sell it for a faster NVIDIA card, but I already have a GTX670 and like having a card from each side of the aisle.

Of course I guess developers will want to focus their efforts on NVIDIA cards these days, since AMD is strictly off-limits for gamers.
 
homerdog said:
And to think I got my 7950 for $200 less than a year ago. It is strictly used for gaming duties, and very good at that. Guess I could sell it for a faster NVIDIA card, but I already have a GTX670 and like having a card from each side of the aisle.

Of course I guess developers will want to focus their efforts on NVIDIA cards these days, since AMD is strictly off-limits for gamers.
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AMD is off-limits for gamers mainly in US and mainly when looking at big resellers like egg. Amazon.com prices are a lot more reasonable and here in Europe cards are priced close to what you would expect from MSRP.

For instance Launch price of 290X in UK was around £529.00 and quickly dropped to £449.00. Today I can buy 290X for £390.00 (reference cooled card 290X OC Edition from PowerColor) and 290 models can be had for around £300.00.

So I don't think game developers will pay much attention to current AMD card prices in US, especially that all these mining Radeons will eventually land in the hands of gamers at some point.
 
The original Dungeon Keeper has been temporarily made free by EA, as an apology from EA, perhaps? The offer lasts until this next Sunday.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-02-14-dungeon-keeper-the-old-one-free-on-gog

ToTTenTranz said:
I purchased the original Stalker, played it for around two hours, found it extremely boring and complex and gave up.
I don't know if I did something wrong, though. It was quite a few years ago.

I like the concept of GoG and I bought Divinity Dragon Commander (special-something edition) there for full price on release. But then I had to wait 3 weeks more than Steam users for a patch that was needed to solve a game-breaking bug, not to mention the lack of Steamworks patches.

It might be interesting to spend on old and bug-free games, but it's lacking severely in the updates department (which, after being almost one month unable to play my game, I found to be more important than the no-DRM part).
The Witcher 3 should be an exception, since the store belongs to CD-Projekt.
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GoG to me is special, like... intimate, lovable and charming. I had never thought I'd buy so many games for the PC anywhere, and I am enjoying some true masterpieces (considered some of the best PC games ever) like I never did. i.e. Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and 3 -I purchased the entire series on GoG, until HoMM5-

They are great at offering and adding support and value to old games that would never work well otherwise on modern OSes overall and to give you an example, they have a DoSBox version of Heroes of Might and Magic 2 along with a Windows version (my favourite, I can freely navigate the OS' interface and quickly return to the game, it's so fun to play a game like that.

http://www.gog.com/forum/heroes_of_...ows_version_available_as_an_extra_please_read

As for Steam and GoG when it comes to recent games, it's obvious Steam is better. The problem I have with Steam is that it asks for things that should be unnecessary, and I never feel in full control of the games. Plus, the Steam Workshop is amazing, just a little overcluttered and convoluted for my taste.

They are two completely different services but GoG is better for me, 'cos the approach is very functional, simple, without being intrusive -no loading in the startup as a service, or similar things-, and I can share my games with someone I trust.

In the end the variety is good, and I have 12 Steam games and 49 GoG games. And I am leaning a lot towards PC gaming as of late.

Another huge perk for me is that I can save my GoG games and the installation files to a pendrive, DVD, an external HD, to use them wherever I want.

Finally, I am not that good at giving advice when it comes to PC but trust me that if you ever accepted a recommendation of mine... with the Heroes of Might and Magic series, especially 2 and 3 (probably the best HoMM game ever, which is saying a LOT), you can never ever go wrong.

They are so addictive and charming that you always want more and more. Also the game lets you play at your own pace, which a superb plus.

Currently my strongest heroe defending my castle and the one I am going to use to defeat the evil Archibald's heroes is a Necromancer. He is amazing, because you can create a huge army of skeletons after a long battle because it can summon a percentage of the units that died in combat as skeletons.

It's really fun, the game has very original situations happening every time, the music is incredible, so melancholic and great to listen to.. I could go on and on.
 
Heroes of Might and Magic 2 is the discovery of my life as a game. One of the games of my life too.

I can't stop playing it and it makes me feel like I found my place in the world, videogaming wise, with my tastes.

It also makes me think that the so called "PC master race" might exist after all. This is just amazing.
 
Cyan said:
Heroes of Might and Magic 2 is the discovery of my life as a game. One of the games of my life too.

I can't stop playing it and it makes me feel like I found my place in the world, videogaming wise, with my tastes.

It also makes me think that the so called "PC master race" might exist after all. This is just amazing.
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I quite agree, HoMM series is one of the games I can return to even despite dated graphics!
 
Davros said:
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xDDDDD Tempt not moderators wrath!

PC is a special platform, it's different, unique and it's original without anyone trying to criticise it, it's just that good. I love to have a PC, more and more everyday.

Lightman said:
I quite agree, HoMM series is one of the games I can return to even despite dated graphics!
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They are dated, sure, but those are amongst the most precious and fun pixels in the history of videogames.

And they say HoMM3 is even better. How can it be possible? It's been like 4 days with this game on the background (Windows 8.1), since I don't turn the PC off, I let it always in sleep mode.

The integration with the Windows 8.1 environment is perfect. I run it at 1024x768, which matches my laptop's vertical resolution, and since I have the taskbar at the top, small icons, and it hides when I am not using it, it's just perfect.

You don't just get in the game when you play. When your mouse comes out of the game's window, you are in the OS already, and the transition is smooth, the game's window and the OS interface are the same thing.

According to Windows the game is just taking up 13.4MB of my 6GB. :) :oops: :oops:
 
Lightman said:
I quite agree, HoMM series is one of the games I can return to even despite dated graphics!
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Forgot to mention that despite of the dated graphics, the art style is timeless and intemporal. Btw, Heroes of Might and Magic is breaking records on my PC. 4-5 days without restarting it, it's just there in a window right now while I am writing. I am on the 3rd stage of the Roland's campaign.

I found out how to play HoMM3 in Windowed Mode, with an amazing utility -I plan to play all the Heroes of Might and Magic from GoG- called HoMM3HD. My hats off to those Russian guys.

http://www.gog.com/forum/heroes_of_might_and_magic_series/windowed_mode
 
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