Video Game Deals Catch-All

Fire emblem three houses $30 at GameStop. Lowest price ever.

Stele wrote:

Fire emblem three houses $30 at GameStop. Lowest price ever.

I adored that game. 165 hours and three playthroughs and I still want more.

DRAGON BALL Z: Kakarot ps4 is $15 on amazon.

Mortal Kombat 11 Aftermath Kollection - PlayStation 4 at Best Buy for $25. Includes free upgrade to PS5 version.

Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4/X1) $19.99 via Best Buy. hmm should I wait for the PC version. I did play the first one on PS3 which reminds me I never finish undead nightmare. Think I'll wait probably wouldn't play it to next year anyway.

Amazon seems to have matched most of Gamestop, Best Buy, and Target's prices that all went live last night.

There's a ton of console games in the $20-30 range that were still $60 a few days ago and had never been cheaper than $40.

Go nuts, everybody.

‘Destiny 2’ is free for all on Stadia starting on November 19th
https://www.engadget.com/destiny-2-s...

That’s basically like them letting you borrow a Destiny PC for free and with cross saves to other systems your progression isn’t locked into Stadia if you move to another platform later.

pandasuit wrote:

‘Destiny 2’ is free for all on Stadia starting on November 19th
https://www.engadget.com/destiny-2-s...

That’s basically like them letting you borrow a Destiny PC for free and with cross saves to other systems your progression isn’t locked into Stadia if you move to another platform later.

While Destiny 2 is the game I'm currently getting deep into (The latest expansion just dropped on the 10th, and I felt it was worth the $40 I paid for it) they removed a ton of content from the game that will effectively handicap these new accounts (the article mentions this but doesn't go into detail). Looking it up, Destiny 2: The Collection includes the base game (Red War), along with Curse of Osiris, Warmind, Forsaken, and Shadowkeep expansions. That being said, The Red War, CoO, and Warmind have been vaulted and are no longer playable. You can still play the Forsaken and Shadowkeep expansions, but all the rewards from those missions are capped at 1060 light... and for those that don't play yet, you'll start at 1050 light, and current max level with Beyond Light is 1260. And because you aren't playing the first three campaigns, you'll be starting deep in the story without any context to what's going on or why things matter.

I don't actually want to discourage people from playing it, but I have a coworker that started fresh with D2 back on the 10th to follow me and an online friend from Division2, and she's pretty much ignoring the story because she has no connection with it.

That’s seems like a bit of a miss. I guess they just want everyone in the new content regardless of how experienced they’re with the game? That puts me off even trying the game.

When it went free to play initially all the story was still there but they hid it in a tower menu and didn’t encourage you to find or play it at all. The intro story for new light players was really short and kinda dumped you into the weekly grind events right away. Most people I know who started after new light never ended up touching the old story stuff.

As of the latest changes at least new players get more tutorial at the start now as they expanded out the starting missions a bit before dumping you in the tower to do whatever you want.

So now there’s a bit better new user experience than new light had but once you are in there is way less content to play. Way less campaign, strikes, levels, and items overall. It kinda feels like the start of Destiny 1 all over again. A fresh start with potential but not a ton of content.

Considering all of that is free outside Stadia it isn’t really a deal to give it to you but outside Stadia you need a relatively modern computer or console to play it. The deal here is they are basically giving you a free streaming version of the free content. Unlike Nvidia’s game streaming it isn’t time limited per session either.

Completely agree with pandasuit. Realistically if they could take the new light quests they have now, and then find a way to push characters into the Red War then it'd actually still be a really good deal (Red War is what got me hooked in the first place). Curse of Osiris is completely forgettable, there's no loss there, but we lost some decent story missions and game modes in Warmind. But if you don't really know the characters well then Forsaken doesn't have the same punch it did. And even with knowing the story, I (along with several others I know) basically took a break through Shadowkeep.

Oh, I should mention, that even 1060 is above the light level of the Forsaken and Shadowkeep campaigns, so those can be completed... but realistically that puts you in a looter/shooter where you only progress in power for 10 levels which will take... maybe an hour. Through two multi-hour campaigns. At a point in the story where if you didn't play the previous expansions then the story doesn't matter...

It's a really amazing game overall, and the story is astoundingly deep and fleshed out. My Name Is Byf over on Youtube has multiple hour+ long videos just going through the story of the game. But I said something because my expectation is that most new players will hop in, be completely lost for an hour, and then uninstall it.

I really enjoyed Destiny 2's gameplay, but drifted away from it because I could never really grok the bigger picture of where I was supposed to be and how progression worked.

It was kind of like starting World of Warcraft after 4-5 expansions, but with every zone and every quest being the same level. So your quest log is this jumble of "main story" quests from several different storylines, mixed together with dailies for long-outdated factions, and you're never sure which is what.

And also like WoW, you keep getting all these different currencies, with various ways of converting them to other currencies or gear upgrades, but half seem to be defunct and others only work for categories of gear that dropped during the end-game of some previous expansion, etc.

That said, hands-down the most visually beautiful game I've ever played.

None of the people I know who started after new light are still playing much at all.

TBH I’ve been disappointed with all Destiny content released after Taken King. That was the pinnacle of Destiny content and none of it is in Destiny 2 at all. I still jump in and play every new DLC because I like the core gameplay but it still feels like a hollow empty game compared to what it was at the peak of Destiny 1.

Nintendo Switch online family is $20 at Target

WTF? Bungie removed all the free content? So none of the stuff I got from Stadia Pro this year is playable any more? Swell.

I guess they don’t want me to ever play another Bungie game if they’re going to pull this kind of nonsense.

Their metrics showed that no one was playing that content. So to drop the size of the game and keep it from being 150+gb they removed it. All the expansion content is there and plenty of planets are there to patrol.

The new plan is to shelve current and bring back old stuff in cycles to keep things more fresh and point you to those locations.

I don't like the change myself, but I can see where they're coming from. And I would argue that if you haven't played that content at this point you probably never were anyway.

I want the opposite from them though, give me all the destiny 1 content and all the destiny 2 content and let me just play whatever I want. From 0 to 1200whatever light.

I may have mentioned this before, but I have a friend who loves Destiny 2 and urged me to install it a few months ago. After the Tutorial, I was dumped into the "terminal" where I had absolutely no idea what was going on. After a few rambles around, I uninstalled it. The game looked promising, but I had no patience at the time for an opaque breadcrumb system burdened by tons of possibly no longer relevant lore. That's what WoW is for.

Once I get my new SSD installed, I might reinstall it just to see what the new changes are.

Natus wrote:

I may have mentioned this before, but I have a friend who loves Destiny 2 and urged me to install it a few months ago. After the Tutorial, I was dumped into the "terminal" where I had absolutely no idea what was going on. After a few rambles around, I uninstalled it. The game looked promising, but I had no patience at the time for an opaque breadcrumb system burdened by tons of possibly no longer relevant lore. That's what WoW is for. ;)

This was my experience too. First impression was that D2 was drop dead gorgeous, movement and shooting felt great - and then I encountered overwhelming walls of text and total option paralysis. It's a game that I'd love to get back to some day and figure out how/why it's awesome but I could immediately see that the number of hours required to break through that first big wall were going to be prohibitive for me.

b12n11w00t wrote:

Their metrics showed that no one was playing that content. So to drop the size of the game and keep it from being 150+gb they removed it. All the expansion content is there and plenty of planets are there to patrol.

The new plan is to shelve current and bring back old stuff in cycles to keep things more fresh and point you to those locations.

I don't like the change myself, but I can see where they're coming from. And I would argue that if you haven't played that content at this point you probably never were anyway.

I want the opposite from them though, give me all the destiny 1 content and all the destiny 2 content and let me just play whatever I want. From 0 to 1200whatever light.

Yes. I want all the good Destiny 1 content back and refreshed. Destiny 2 is so often a reminder of all the things I miss from Destiny 1. I’m nostalgic for the magic of Vault of Glass and basically everything from Taken King. I like how they handled bringing the moon back and I hope they do similar with other D1 content.

I’m waiting to see how this all turns out. It helps that I get all the new DLC as part of Game Pass now so I don’t have to debate whether each DLC is worth $40 or not (spoiler alert: this one totally isn’t).

Technically Osiris and Warmind are expansion content and they’ve been removed.

Technically there is only one planet left to patrol because while there are other locations none of them are planets.

I played the hell out of Destiny 2 when it came out, then got bored and put it away. Picked it up gain a couple months ago, played it again, and there was a lot of stuff and a lot of cutscenes, and I never really watched any of them. To put it generously, the "story" of Destiny 2 is pure nonsense, and you could basically create a random word generator and as long as you regularly toss in the words "light", "darkness", and "traveler", you'd probably hit a solid 75% of the "ideas" in the game. Lots of goofy, histrionic voice acting, and, honestly, I miss ye ole Dinklebot from D1 because Peter Dinklage gave the appropriate amount of effort for this silliness.

That being said, the shooting and movement in D2 are phenomenally good, and it just feels better as a shooter than any other game out there, and it's worth playing for the pure mechanics of things. It's really great at that, and, if you just ignore the gibberish and have some friends to run around with, it's great fun. I am pretty annoyed with the Beyond Light stuff just because the starter missions of the "story" are at an annoyingly high light level and are far more difficult with the gear you'll have, and I ran around the Cosmodrome for a while just to try to find some better gear, and it's still annoyingly hard. That instant spike in difficulty is a pain in the butt, and it's made it so I just haven't been picking the game up much at all.

It's very playable as a solo game, but much more fun with friends. Definitely shines when you're all covering each other and talking through strategies.

Nintendo eShop started Thanksgiving sale apparently? DekuDeals site is crashing, only up intermittently. Everything on the first page I could get to load is "lowest price ever" so probably something you want is on sale now.

I like a lot of the lore of Destiny but keep in mind 99.99999% of the lore of the Destiny world is NOT communicated directly in game. In Destiny 1 most of it was hidden in lore cards you had to view outside the game. The most realistic way to consume this content is to watch My Name Is Byf videos. He does a great job of presenting all the known lore in an easy to consume form but there is a ton of it so you might be overwhelmed if you try to see it all. He has some videos that give a summary of the whole timeline but those are looooong.

The lore around the history of The Hive (especially Oryx and his family) is really good. If you only play the game you don’t really get to see any of that.

If all I cared about was the lore I would just watch Byf videos and never play the game. Thankfully the mechanics of the game are fun and keep bringing me back. The shooting is top tier and the abilities are a power trip. Really makes you feel like a super hero.

What frustrates me about Destiny 2 is that the raids are the best tactical team modes and the place where all the mechanics and gameplay come together however the grind to be raid ready is frustrating and time consuming and I just can’t be bothered to do it over and over anymore. I played every raid in Destiny 1 over and over but I’ve barely played any Destiny 2 raids at all and I just can’t get motivated to do so. Grinding repetitive content over and over to get powerful enough to just enter a raid is not my idea of fun. If you are a “casual” player in Destiny you miss out on a lot of the best experiences.

I did love the Vault of Glass, but I'm never going to do a raid again just because (A) I'm not dedicated enough to grind for it and (B) I'm not joining a clan dedicated enough to grind for it. You need both to have yourself up there, and a large enough group of people to commit to it. Neither of those is happening for me.

As for the lore . . . if it's not in the game, it's not game lore. It's just fanfic the developers happen to be involved with.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

As for the lore . . . if it's not in the game, it's not game lore. It's just fanfic the developers happen to be involved with.

It's good fan fic tho

There has GOT to be Destiny thread around here somewhere.

It’s the Deals thread, not the ‘What’s the deal with Destiny’ thread :p

Destiny has some of the best lore and back story in video games. Bar none. Bar. None.

I have this image in my head of Shawn casually dropping in on the boards to check out game deals, becoming shocked at the Destiny talk, and then just shaking his head and coming away wildly disappointed.

He should stay away from the election threads.... ;P

fangblackbone wrote:

He should stay away from the election threads.... ;P

Is that where I find the deals?