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[Sergius]

I can recommend Don't Starve, Limbo, and Fallout 3. Especially Limbo, although it has the least re-playability.

I don't know why people prefer NV over Fallout 3. I guess most people like endless deserts more than I do

Fallout NV is generally less buggy and overall a better game and story. Fallout 3 has a kickass DC nuclear wasteland and a giant robot of DEMOCRACY. Take your pick.

Fallout 3 would have been an awesome DC map, if it wasn't for all those invisible walls

Phew... good thing I'm not big on horror, so none of these games interest me. And I'm really broke this month.

[Metalax]

Although it's not on the big list of games Fallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition is on sale at 75% off. I've enjoyed both Fallout 3 and New Vegas, though if you only have the funds for one, New Vegas is probably the better to pick.

Edit: Checking the specials tab off the main page shows a lot of games heavily discounted that aren't on the big Halloween list so it looks like quite a few other deals are on.

[Graknorke]

GUYS.
WALKING DEAD 2 SEASON PASS
NOBODY HAS MENTIONED THIS BUT ITS SO EXCITING

[Neonivek]

I can't play Walking Dead until my Older Sister plays it.

It is the rule on presents... you don't "try someone's present out"

[Dutchling]

GUYS.
WALKING DEAD 2 SEASON PASS
NOBODY HAS MENTIONED THIS BUT ITS SO EXCITING

I stopped playing Walking Dead to avoid getting an emotional breakdown Dx

[scrdest]

Actually, New Vegas: Ultimate IS on sale, 75% off even.

Atom Zombie Smasher is incredibly fun little game - people have a hard time describing it, because it's hard to categorize it: it plays like something between a weird strategy game and a bit of tower defense, except completely devoid of towers, the things you are trying to protect is people you're evacuating, and with only two types of enemies (and for the most of the time, only one).

The closest thing is THIS game with a lot of additions and an audiovisual upgrade.

It has unique gameplay, awesome surf-y soundtrack and... well, it was made by the guy who went on to make Thirty Flights of Loving.

Pirates! is pretty cool, but a bit dated, same with Ghost Master.


Can anyone tell me if VtM: Bloodlines is worth my money?

[Thexor]

Can anyone tell me if VtM: Bloodlines is worth my money?

VtM: Bloodlines is absolutely worth the money IF you install the unofficial patch (ModDB link). Without the unofficial patch, it's a buggy mess of an RPG. The patch fixes almost every major bug, and if you install the Plus edition it also restores a lot of the half-finished/cut content. And it's a damn good game once the bugs and rushed content is fixed!

(It's also frequently updated - version 8.8 of the patch was released five days ago!)

[majikero]

Any word on They Bleed Pixles?

[Leonon]

The only real problem with Bloodlines is that there's a definite best way to make and level up your character. There are a few different ways to play though, with the biggest changes being the difference between Malkavians, Nosferatu, and the rest of the vampire clans. Nosferatu are too deformed to hide among normal humans and Malkavians are blessed with glorious insight and are barking mad.

Any word on They Bleed Pixles?

It's kind of meh. The story idea's good but there's not enough variety in what you can do in combat or in how moves can be chained.

[Mephisto]

I must admit, I'm not sure what makes a number of these games "special."

Arkham City: GotY is on there. I'm sure it's great and all, but it's full-price.

Have they started putting price drops on the list? I'm not sure what Arkham City was before, but it's now US$29.99.

[Anvilfolk]

Can someone compare Fallout 3 New Vegas with the Mass Effect series? I sort of enjoyed Mass Effect 1, as a nice timewaster, but I get bored of running back and forth to tell people I've done what they want me to do on the other side of the map. I don't really like story as much as I like a sandboxy world, or RPG mechanics in a shooter.

[Lightningfalcon]

Can someone compare Fallout 3 New Vegas with the Mass Effect series? I sort of enjoyed Mass Effect 1, as a nice timewaster, but I get bored of running back and forth to tell people I've done what they want me to do on the other side of the map. I don't really like story as much as I like a sandboxy world, or RPG mechanics in a shooter.

New Vegas is definitely more sandboxy.  Mass Effect 2 and 3 are very much linear, through you can decide the order of things (Mission B, then A, then C, missions are still the same). 

[majikero]

Can someone compare Fallout 3 New Vegas with the Mass Effect series? I sort of enjoyed Mass Effect 1, as a nice timewaster, but I get bored of running back and forth to tell people I've done what they want me to do on the other side of the map. I don't really like story as much as I like a sandboxy world, or RPG mechanics in a shooter.

For Fallout NV, I suggest the Project Nevada mod. It, alone, makes the game infinitely better in terms of gameplay. For Fallout 3, the Wanderer's Edition mod makes its mediocre game EPIC. Radiation is actually lethal, stimpacks and bullets are rare. Every gunfight is an epic battle of life and death.

While NV is simply better as a game, Fallout 3 had the best atmosphere.

[Neonivek]

I am also of the minority opinion that Fallout 3 was better than Fallout NV.

Though I will say that the DLC (Except... the first... Wow, is that whole adventure a chore) does actually push NV ahead of Fallout 3... but without DLC it is Fallout 3 all the way.

[Darkmere]

Can someone compare Fallout 3 New Vegas with the Mass Effect series? I sort of enjoyed Mass Effect 1, as a nice timewaster, but I get bored of running back and forth to tell people I've done what they want me to do on the other side of the map. I don't really like story as much as I like a sandboxy world, or RPG mechanics in a shooter.

All the Mass Effect games were much narrower in RPG scope than the Fallouts allow. If it helps: "herp derp fallout is just oblivion with guns!!".... but I never played Oblivion, so meh. Between Fallout 3 and New Vegas, the differences are:

Spoiler: Fallout 3 (click to show/hide)

-Masturbatory empowerment fantasy plot that does nothing but rehash older Fallout games (poorly)
-asinine DLC where you get abducted by aliens and play video games in your video games (The Pitt was decent, though)
-Non-interactive final battle where you follow around Optimus Prime around and then are forced to kill yourself
-weapon skill choices are essentially limited to guns and melee weapons (plus whatever you put spare points in. Rokkit launchers I guess)
-hours of nearly-identical subway tunnels to fight completely identical ghouls in.

Spoiler: Fallout: New Vegas (click to show/hide)

-multi-faceted plot that made you think about which side you backed
-DLC was tangentially linked to the main plot and offered plenty of interesting locations (and Honest Hearts was there too. But it had Joshua Graham...)
-all weapons skills except unarmed are viable and effective (guns, energy weapons, melee, explosives can be taken each on their own and the game is winnable with any)
-a decent amount of desert, which was NOT more subway tunnels.

FO3 seemed more generic to me, with most of the "DC with Rubble" zones just looking the same. Oh, and there were subway tunnels, if I forgot to mention those. NV does have expanses of desert I guess, but each location was more memorable and the voice acting/writing/worldbuilding was just plain better (because there were no subway vampires). Mods make both decent, but NV was a better game all around.