Video Game Deals Catch-All

soonerjudd wrote:
tanstaafl wrote:

No, no Steam key. They have their own download manager and you download the game directly from their site then run the installer.

Yeah, I figured as much. Was just hoping it was closer to Amazon where you could download direct from them and also get a Steam key (in some instances).

With GoG, you just get a full game download, in a gog wrapper exe. It extracts to a folder and runs the game, no muss, no fuss. You could always 'add non-steam game' to your steam library, and launch it from steam if you wanted to.

People should be wary of buying the AMD Bioshock, Tomb Raider, Blood Dragon bundles on ebay. I just received mine, registered it, and only received a Tomb Raider steam key and a Blood Dragon Ubisoft key. There was a message that said some keys may take longer to deliver so I looked it up. It looks like people who have tried to claim keys for the last week or so are not getting Bioshock keys and are not receiving any responses from AMD regarding the issue.

EvilDead wrote:

People should be wary of buying the AMD Bioshock, Tomb Raider, Blood Dragon bundles on ebay. I just received mine, registered it, and only received a Tomb Raider steam key and a Blood Dragon Ubisoft key. There was a message that said some keys may take longer to deliver so I looked it up. It looks like people who have tried to claim keys for the last week or so are not getting Bioshock keys and are not receiving any responses from AMD regarding the issue.

That stinks. I did mine a few weeks ago and received all my keys. I haven't installed the Uplay thing yet.

It is very intrusive? I have Steam and Origin now. I set it up so neither starts at boot. I don't think I am wasting any resources, but you never know.

PRG013 wrote:
EvilDead wrote:

People should be wary of buying the AMD Bioshock, Tomb Raider, Blood Dragon bundles on ebay. I just received mine, registered it, and only received a Tomb Raider steam key and a Blood Dragon Ubisoft key. There was a message that said some keys may take longer to deliver so I looked it up. It looks like people who have tried to claim keys for the last week or so are not getting Bioshock keys and are not receiving any responses from AMD regarding the issue.

That stinks. I did mine a few weeks ago and received all my keys. I haven't installed the Uplay thing yet.

It is very intrusive? I have Steam and Origin now. I set it up so neither starts at boot. I don't think I am wasting any resources, but you never know.

I haven't registered blood dragon yet but I'm pretty sure Farcry 3 also uses Uplay and I didn't find it intrusive. I just shut off the services when I'm not using them anyways.

EvilDead wrote:
PRG013 wrote:
EvilDead wrote:

People should be wary of buying the AMD Bioshock, Tomb Raider, Blood Dragon bundles on ebay. I just received mine, registered it, and only received a Tomb Raider steam key and a Blood Dragon Ubisoft key. There was a message that said some keys may take longer to deliver so I looked it up. It looks like people who have tried to claim keys for the last week or so are not getting Bioshock keys and are not receiving any responses from AMD regarding the issue.

That stinks. I did mine a few weeks ago and received all my keys. I haven't installed the Uplay thing yet.

It is very intrusive? I have Steam and Origin now. I set it up so neither starts at boot. I don't think I am wasting any resources, but you never know.

I haven't registered blood dragon yet but I'm pretty sure Farcry 3 also uses Uplay and I didn't find it intrusive. I just shut off the services when I'm not using them anyways.

When I install Uplay, will it tie in with ZombiU also?

That's a good question. I'm pretty sure the uPlay account is universal across all platforms as long as you registered/signed in with the same email. Maybe someone else can confirm.

EvilDead wrote:

That's a good question. I'm pretty sure the uPlay account is universal across all platforms as long as you registered/signed in with the same email. Maybe someone else can confirm.

Yes.

Sorry to hear you're having issues. Wonder if they ran out of keys for Bioshock?

I got mine a couple of months ago, then got the Far Cry add on later.

omnipherous wrote:

For some reason, I'm hugely tempted by Theme hospital.. when I know I really would never, ever play it.

He, me too for some reason.
Also tempted by the 'Definitive dungeons and dragons'.

This is so much worse than Blu-ray re-releases.

I'll speak up for Defender's Quest from the indie developer thing. It's a tower defense, but your towers are all Heroes, with their own skill trees, etc. Got a good 30 hours out of it, and it was a bit different from the usual fare. Looking forward the a sequel!

Theme Hospital is an awesome ride. It does get a bit repetitive, but it's still awesome. Y'all should get it if you have the interest.

Theme Hospital is the game that burned my wife out on video games. She was obsessed with it and played it addictively and then lost a bunch of hours to a crash.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Theme Hospital is the game that burned my wife out on video games. She was obsessed with it and played it addictively and then lost a bunch of hours to a crash.

What Q is saying is it's an awesome game! Until you need therapy.

That's exactly what I'm saying.

I don't recall whether you can build a psychiatric wing of your hospital...

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Theme Hospital is the game that burned my wife out on video games. She was obsessed with it and played it addictively and then lost a bunch of hours to a crash.

Yeah, I was right up to winning the very last level. And somehow lost a few saves so I would be back 3 levels or so.

Veloxi wrote:

I don't recall whether you can build a psychiatric wing of your hospital...

From what I remember, yes. There are psychiatrists and the patients come in and lay down on the couch during their visit.

Loved that game. So much time spent getting the right ratio of bathrooms/janitors/patients so that there wouldn't be vomit-filled hallways.

Yellek wrote:
Quintin_Stone wrote:

Theme Hospital is the game that burned my wife out on video games. She was obsessed with it and played it addictively and then lost a bunch of hours to a crash.

Yeah, I was right up to winning the very last level. And somehow lost a few saves so I would be back 3 levels or so.

Veloxi wrote:

I don't recall whether you can build a psychiatric wing of your hospital...

From what I remember, yes. There are psychiatrists and the patients come in and lay down on the couch during their visit.

Loved that game. So much time spent getting the right ratio of bathrooms/janitors/patients so that there wouldn't be vomit-filled hallways.

Oh, very cool, I'm glad they included that.

Yellek wrote:

So much time spent getting the right ratio of bathrooms/janitors/patients so that there wouldn't be vomit-filled hallways.

Truly the Citizen Kane of video games.

carrotpanic wrote:
Yellek wrote:

So much time spent getting the right ratio of bathrooms/janitors/patients so that there wouldn't be vomit-filled hallways.

Truly the Citizen Kane of video games.

I listened to that Idle Thumbs.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:
carrotpanic wrote:
Yellek wrote:

So much time spent getting the right ratio of bathrooms/janitors/patients so that there wouldn't be vomit-filled hallways.

Truly the Citizen Kane of video games.

I listened to that Idle Thumbs.

You're the Citizen Kane of GWJ, tuffalo.

If memory serves correctly, the psychiatrist was for multiple personality disorder, the wee dude was dressed as Elvis. Am I right in thinking that they originally included multiplayer, but that it never really worked? It's a shame Hospital Tycoon was such a let down.

STOP TEMPTING ME!

Edit: then I went and found this.

Blind_Evil wrote:

This is weird, but whatever. Sony is offering Beyond: Two Souls for $34.99 at their online store.

$25 off a first party PS3 game set to release in October?

They must really have faith in it!

Citizen86 wrote:
Blind_Evil wrote:

This is weird, but whatever. Sony is offering Beyond: Two Souls for $34.99 at their online store.

$25 off a first party PS3 game set to release in October?

They must really have faith in it!

I'm thinking they're worried it'll get lost in the next-gen shuffle.

Oh man, how is Omerta? That is looking tempting at ~$10 on GoG

omnipherous wrote:

Next lot of GOG sale games are up. There's really too many to mention as they appear to be doing a LONGEST DAY OF #NoDRM GAMING SALE.

Holy cow that's a list of incredible old games for dirt cheap.

Today would be the perfect day to wake up from a 15 year coma and buy some games you'd be been hankering for in the late 90's.

Steam has their work cut out for them this summer.

Blind_Evil wrote:
Citizen86 wrote:
Blind_Evil wrote:

This is weird, but whatever. Sony is offering Beyond: Two Souls for $34.99 at their online store.

$25 off a first party PS3 game set to release in October?

They must really have faith in it!

I'm thinking they're worried it'll get lost in the next-gen shuffle.

Must be... I think I'll jump on that. I loved Heavy Rain, so I'm willing to take a chance on this, especially for $25 off at launch.

Running Man wrote:

Today would be the perfect day to wake up from a 15 year coma and buy some games you'd be been hankering for in the late 90's.

I can just imagine the scene...

"It's... 2013? Just tell me one thing. How awesome was Duke Nukem Forever?"

Dyni wrote:
Blind_Evil wrote:
Citizen86 wrote:
Blind_Evil wrote:

This is weird, but whatever. Sony is offering Beyond: Two Souls for $34.99 at their online store.

$25 off a first party PS3 game set to release in October?

They must really have faith in it!

I'm thinking they're worried it'll get lost in the next-gen shuffle.

Must be... I think I'll jump on that. I loved Heavy Rain, so I'm willing to take a chance on this, especially for $25 off at launch.

I was looking forward to this one, can't pass up a deal that good.

Budo wrote:

Steam has their work cut out for them this summer.

This is a very good thing. I love Steam and its has changed my life, but the fact that GOG, GMG, Amazon, Gamefly, and the indie bundling groups are competing means everyone wins -- especially us. We live in an amazing time filled with abundant, inexpensive games.

PS: Gaming industry, you can stop making games now. I need to catch up on my pile.

misplacedbravado wrote:
Running Man wrote:

Today would be the perfect day to wake up from a 15 year coma and buy some games you'd be been hankering for in the late 90's.

I can just imagine the scene...

"It's... 2013? Just tell me one thing. How awesome was Duke Nukem Forever?"

OMG Daikatana! I hope I can still be Romero's Female Doggo!