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[Sirus]

If y'all are doing complaining about a game that was released several years ago, the most realistic surgery simulator ever has been released for Steam. 30% off too!

[Lectorog]

Somewhat similarly, Portal 2 is 75% off this weekend. It is worth $5 US, if you're into the sort of game.

[Sirus]

Somewhat similarly, Portal 2 is 75% off this weekend. It is worth $5 US, if you're into the sort of game.

I'll give this a +1. If you enjoy puzzles, you should really give this a shot.

[Neonivek]

Somewhat similarly, Portal 2 is 75% off this weekend. It is worth $5 US, if you're into the sort of game.

Definitely worth it, five bucks for a punch of physics (well not really...) puzzles that are well done with dialog and a multiplayer mode.

It would be worth full price yet alone 75% off.

[Enzo]

Also, if you have neither, buy the bundle and play the first game first. It's very short, but completely worth it.

[Mephisto]

Steam and/or smart phones are horrible temptations. I bought AI War: Fleet Command and all of the expansions while at work. It's just so convenient.

[Aklyon]

Dishonored is slightly more than 50% off right now on GMG.
It says you'd need a steam account to play so I'm gonig to assume it gives a steam key.

[Lectorog]

Anyone who doesn't have it already is probably not going to be satisfied at $25. It's really, really not a perfect game. I've enjoyed three playthroughs, but I'm still glad I didn't buy the game.

[Trapezohedron]

Spoiler: Spore Derail (click to show/hide)

I'd think that when you are presented new material, the public isn't expected to just assume that the older stuff shown has been removed

That is where all the videos, discussions, and announcements come in.

The utter delusions of the "public" to hold onto the first video even when everything else contradicts it. Is what hyped Spore.

...and this is why you don't hype. Hyping about stuff creates an audience. And since first impressions last, they will take whatever you used to hype as a basis. Basically, the best time to hype is around the time where you don't have to remove many features from your game or deviate from it significantly (in short, Beta phase). I don't understand why EA doesn't get this.

[Micro102]

I was a spore fanatic. In my free time, I looked up new information on spore. I can tell you, there was no indication that the old stuff was removed. The only videos differing from the 2005 ones before launch, were those of the cell phase, which gave me no impression that anything was different other then the graphics, and 1 or 2 videos of the creature phase, which did not go into detail. If they showed multiple different creatures then people might have caught on, but that's probably why there was so little content before release.

[Siquo]

I was a spore fanatic. In my free time, I looked up new information on spore. I can tell you, there was no indication that the old stuff was removed. The only videos differing from the 2005 ones before launch, were those of the cell phase, which gave me no impression that anything was different other then the graphics, and 1 or 2 videos of the creature phase, which did not go into detail. If they showed multiple different creatures then people might have caught on, but that's probably why there was so little content before release.

This. However, I just started playing Spore with my 4-yr old today, and the game is apparently really tuned to that demographic.

QED

[Neonivek]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I was a spore fanatic. In my free time, I looked up new information on spore. I can tell you, there was no indication that the old stuff was removed

Except outright announcements that they removed the water phase and that they might not even have flying creatures.

Actually in fact according to forum posts I am fishing through. They announced "No flying" early in 2008.

The only videos differing from the 2005 ones before launch, were those of the cell phase, which gave me no impression that anything was different other then the graphics, and 1 or 2 videos of the creature phase, which did not go into detail. If they showed multiple different creatures then people might have caught on, but that's probably why there was so little content before release.

Lets go with this... Here is a video two to three months before the release of Spore (It is nearly impossible to find the videos for spore now)

http://www.gamespot.com/spore/videos/spore-e3-2008-stage-show-demo-6194325/

Here is one further back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_wnoFGGyyE

However HERE is the video. a 2006 video from IGN that proves the 2005 video false

http://ca.ign.com/videos/2006/05/10/spore-pc-games-gameplay-spore-demo-video

So yeah, if you were "Looking up info" back then and you still were surprised that "Spore wasn't like the 2005 video at all!" you hyped yourself... since you started racking a list of removed features back in 2006

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Ugh, every year it gets harder and harder to find the info for this arguement. I cannot imagine the unfathomable insanity it would be to FIND the water stage announcement.

[Sirus]

Here's a novel idea: How about we DON'T bring up Spore and the endless, tired arguments every six months or so? For fuck's sake, it's not even on sale anymore, making it irrelevant to the thread topic.

Here's something to get us back on track: Jagged Alliance Collector's Bundle. Looks like two games and a bunch of DLC for $29.99 American, or 25% off. Having not played this series, I'm not sure if it's a good bundle or not.

[hemmingjay]

one of the "2" games is really a standalone expansion that doesn't add a ton to the game and most people think it should have been a $5 dlc. The base game is decent and the small item dlc that comes with it is nice for making the initial part of the game a bit easier. All in all, I think the base game is great for $10-20 but the rest is just filler to drive up the price. I myself yarr'd it to see if it was worth it for me and I ended up buying it after playing for 5 hours. I don't regret it, but it's not GOTY material.

[Tellemurius]

Devs have completely stopped working on the games so we aren't going to see improvements and modders can't do anything except edit data tables so there is little to fix the games. honestly i got BIA for 15 bucks on sale, used rts mode and unfortunately got bored in 2 hours. There is very little way to make money and honestly wasn't much to do management-wise other than gun and run. My hopes for the new devs to give me a honest good JA with turn-base.


fakeedit: Also, if the sale has already died, please stop talking about it, i know how much Spore was a letdown but that is not the purpose of the thread.