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[klingon13524]

The Deus Ex games 75% off? Do yourself a favor and buy them.

[Dutchling]

Fallout collection is on sale: -66% on Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics; discounted both alone and in the pack. That puts each at $3.39, bundle for $6.79 in the US. That's a pretty good deal, if you want to buy those games.

I would have missed it if you wouldn't have posted it.
I got Fallout Tactics as I didn't really like the other two.

Also, Hitman Blood Money, worth 5 euros?

[JoshuaFH]

Also, Hitman Blood Money, worth 5 euros?

Yep, I loved it. There's alot of creativity in how you can complete missions, and it's just an all-around fun game.

[BigD145]

Fallout collection is on sale: -66% on Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics; discounted both alone and in the pack. That puts each at $3.39, bundle for $6.79 in the US. That's a pretty good deal, if you want to buy those games.

I picked up the CD's some years back for around $5. I think it came with the Tactics rules for tabletop wargaming. Fallout is worth it.

[IronyOwl]

The Deus Ex games 75% off? Do yourself a favor and buy them.

Shit, what was the second one last time it was on sale? I may have gotten ripped off by getting it at -50% or -66%.

Don't think the first was on sale at the time, though. I'll have to snatch it up now.

[Sirus]

Also, Hitman Blood Money, worth 5 euros?

Yep, I loved it. There's alot of creativity in how you can complete missions, and it's just an all-around fun game.

Just to give an example: in an early mission your target is an opera singer during a sort of open rehearsal. You can ambush him in his dressing room with any weapon you can think of (firearms, knife, hammer, nail gun, fiber wire, poison syringe, etc). You can snipe him from a balcony during the rehearsal. You can set a remote-detonated explosive somewhere. You can replace a fake gun prop with a real one, thus setting some poor stage extra to pull the trigger. Or...you can take that stage extra's costume, and kill the target in front of the audience and it will be dismissed as an accident.

That's in one mission, for one target. I'm sure there are other methods I haven't even considered.

[JoshuaFH]

Also, Hitman Blood Money, worth 5 euros?

Yep, I loved it. There's alot of creativity in how you can complete missions, and it's just an all-around fun game.

Just to give an example: in an early mission your target is an opera singer during a sort of open rehearsal. You can ambush him in his dressing room with any weapon you can think of (firearms, knife, hammer, nail gun, fiber wire, poison syringe, etc). You can snipe him from a balcony during the rehearsal. You can set a remote-detonated explosive somewhere. You can replace a fake gun prop with a real one, thus setting some poor stage extra to pull the trigger. Or...you can take that stage extra's costume, and kill the target in front of the audience and it will be dismissed as an accident.

That's in one mission, for one target. I'm sure there are other methods I haven't even considered.

You forgot dropping the stage lights on him, shooting him from backstage, and pushing him down stairs. Anyone can be pushed down stairs for awesomely lethal 'accidental' deaths. If you time it just right, you can kill people as they go down gentle inclines or single-step stairways. I had pushing people down to an art.

And if you get good at throwing knives and remote-detonated bombs? You can kill anyone anywhere.

It's much better than the other games in the series IMO.

[Sirus]

I didn't even know you could push people down stairs to kill them. I knew you could push them into water to drown them though.

[Anvilfolk]

I found one of the Hitmans super boring - it might've been the first one. I seem to recall some asian restaurant in the first mission?

I might be interested in this version if it has a bit more action. The descriptions you guys made sure sound interesting... I think my problem is I just can't be bothered to wait long for something to happen. Timeskip usually helps, or at least a save feature. Would anyone be so kind as to give their thoughts on whether I'd like this Hitman: Blood Money?

[Sirus]

I don't recall an Asian restaurant in Blood Money, so I don't think that's the one you're thinking of.

Now, there's not much action in Hitman unless you blow your cover. The primary goal is still to sneak around and eliminate your targets without getting caught. You can save a certain number of times per mission depending on difficulty level (unlimited times on easiest, never on hardest), but there's no timeskip. So you still frequently end up waiting around for stuff to happen, but there's nothing stopping you from gunning down everyone in your way (except terrible scores).

[hemmingjay]

It was the first one and I believe it was revisited in a later game. The first game was revolutionary at the time, but doesn't hold up as well now due to the clunky mechanics. Still a worthy classic imho.

[userpay]

Is The Last Remnant any good? Doesn't appear to have the greatest score though it still looks interesting (might note that the pc version seems to have a higher rating for some reason). Could have sworn I'd played something with a similar name but looking at the screenshots it doesn't look familiar.
Supreme Commander 2?
Front Mission Evolved? (pity its not turn based like previous games I've played of this series)

[JoshuaFH]

I had the Xbox 360 version of Last Remnant. I can't say much about it beyond that I couldn't play it for more than 10 minutes before ragequitting for some asinine reason so I can't give a good estimate as to it's actual quality.

From what I can remember, since I don't have it anymore, is that the combat wasn't very fulfilling, alot of perfectly good words were re-purposed to fit as some stupid battle mechanic name (which just pissed me off for no reason), the opening story seemed very contrived, and there were invisible walls galore. I just wanted to explore the bazaar, but invisible wall says no. I don't like that.

[Nirur Torir]

The Last Remnant's alright, but I certainly wouldn't rate it as being worth $25. The most notable cons to me were the anti-grinding mechanic (Party level does nothing other than make it harder to gain stats) and the strange system of giving orders (You have a few options per squad each turn, and healing might not be an option when you really need to heal, right now). I didn't get particularly far in it, but it was amusing using a dozen party members kill a swarm of monsters led by a dragon.

[Knight of Fools]

Is Dungeon Siege 3 as mindless as the first one?