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[lordcooper]

Well it's Christmas (in this country) and I'm on my own this year, so I've decided to get myself a special gift from my Steam wishlist. I'm currently torn between these two - recommendations?

The Metronomicon - I love rhythm games and this one looks like a lot of fun.
Grow Up - I loved Grow Home and this looks like similar fun.

EDIT: Oh, I also have my eye on The Magic Circle...

I really enjoyed The Magic Circle, it's deliciously meta without being obvious or smarmy.  On several occasions I thought up a way to try and break the game, sequence break or simply wondered if I could reach a spot when it looked like I couldn't, and the devs had prepared for very nearly all of them.  One scene in particular (no details because omg spoilers) is amazingly honest and brutal, and very nearly worth the asking price for alone.

[CABL]

Can someone tell me whether Mad Max still has Denuvo DRM? Trash 3rd Party DRM = instant no buy.

Why would WB Games remove DRM which still wasn't cracked? Plus from what I saw about this game, is that it's pretty much Batman: AK clone, but in Mad Max universe.

[BuriBuriZaemon]

Plus from what I saw about this game, is that it's pretty much Batman: AK clone, but in Mad Max universe.

The close quarter combat is similar to WB's Batman games, but the vehicular combat is the best I've seen in an open world game and does not exist in Batman games.

[CABL]

The close quarter combat is similar to WB's Batman games, but the vehicular combat is the best I've seen in an open world game and does not exist in Batman games.

I don't know how about Mad Max, but vehicular combat in AK was pretty much "shoot the glowing blue thingie for instakill" or "kill otherwise invincible heavy drones by shooting glowing red thingie on their backs". But everybody gets my opinion about B: AK, I hated it and it made me boycott WB Games. Don't even start on PC port which still sucks. The story is lousy at best, Batmobile is like 85% of the game, Batman is a cruel asshole, you need to get 100% completion if you want to see non-sensical "true ending".

Sorry for the rant, I just really hate that game. I need to learn how to control myself.

[IronyOwl]

Two games still on my Wishlist that I can play on my current system and am actually interested in: Darkest Dungeon and Sunless Sea. How do people feel about them?

Darkest Dungeon is really nice. The tone and style are super well done and persistent, which gives the whole thing a lovely dark/Lovecraftian ambience. Mechanically it's a position-based dungeon crawler with some nifty synergy/tactical decisionmaking going on. Most of the character-related systems are a little weak, sadly, but your guys are still pretty interesting when you can tell them apart from each other.

Conversely, I found Sunless Sea pretty dull. It also tries for a dark and/or Lovecraftian setting, but it doesn't have the same elegant ambience. It tries to make up for that with a lot more background lore and quest stories, but I felt like those fell flat too. Part of the problem is just that when everywhere you visit is a blind cannibal monastery, it sort of loses its impact. Part of the problem is that it's not really relevant to anything except curiosity, and mostly curiosity about that rock in particular at that. Mechanically, it's pretty clunky and formulaic, so if the stories don't hook you it's likely nothing will.

[SeriousConcentrate]

I haven't played much of Darkest Dungeon; when I first bought it, my PC was such shite it wasn't able to run it very well, and I have such a massive backlog at this point that I haven't gotten around to reinstalling it. From what little I did play, though, I can confirm Irony's statements on the style and mechanics, and I would also like to add that it probably has the absolute best opening narration of any game I've heard, ever, except for maybe King's Field 2 (though I like the one in KF2 in much more of an ironic sense than an actual one).

[Sirus]

Darkest Dungeon has some of the best narration, period. It might not be quite as extensive as, say, Bastion, but the voice actor absolutely sells every line.

[Flying Dice]

ArmA III's Apex DLC is on sale for 50% off--that's about $17, the first reasonable price it's had.

[Retropunch]

Darkest Dungeon has incredible atmosphere (graphics + narration are amazing) however I got a little bit tired with how RNG it can be. You can sometimes get full party wipes from a few bad hits. It's improved a lot more recently, but it got a bit frustrating how luck based it was.

[AzyWng]

Games like Darkest Dungeon have made me absolutely hate critical hits, so do be careful there.

I mean, party members can crit as well, but one should never pin their hopes on a miracle.

As if Team Fortress 2 hadn't yet done a good enough job of that...

[Retropunch]

Games like Darkest Dungeon have made me absolutely hate critical hits, so do be careful there.

I mean, party members can crit as well, but one should never pin their hopes on a miracle.

Yeah, I love a bit of RNG and that feeling where everything is swimming along nicely and then *BAM* you need to switch everything up, but Darkest Dungeon sometimes can sometimes just hit you with 4 crits in a row with nothing you can do about it/do to redeem the situation.

[woosholay]

Space Rangers 2 - http://store.steampowered.com/app/214730/ at -75%
Thea: The Awakening - http://store.steampowered.com/app/378720/ at -50%

You can never go wrong with SR2 especially at that price and Thea is worth it even without discount (with free expansion-sized DLC to boot). Both are unique in their own right: SR2 is an RTS combined with RPG, turn-based space simulation, CYOA quests and arcade hyperspace battles. Thea is a survival strategy with cards, CYOA segments, roguelike and RPG elements .

[AVE]

I've decided to buy Witcher 3. But I cannot decide where to buy it from - gog or steam, as both stores have pros and cons.

GOG pro - it is CDPR's own store, so all money goes to them. Also nodrm. Con is that 1.31goty scripts are pretty much unsupported by many mods on the nexus, as most of them are made for 1.30.

Steam pro - achievements, time tracking, etc. All that bits and pieces that pat my internal completionist. 1.30 scripts (actually 1.31, but they are quite a bit different from 1.31goty scripts from gog and are compatible with 1.30) that are supported by most of the significant nexus mods. Con - CDPR gets only part of my money, steam drm.

[Aklyon]

Can someone tell me whether Mad Max still has Denuvo DRM? Trash 3rd Party DRM = instant no buy.

Why would WB Games remove DRM which still wasn't cracked? Plus from what I saw about this game, is that it's pretty much Batman: AK clone, but in Mad Max universe.

Because it has been cracked, and other devs have been stripping it out of their games. Like the new Doom.

Its no longer the magical unicorn of protection.

[CABL]

Can someone tell me whether Mad Max still has Denuvo DRM? Trash 3rd Party DRM = instant no buy.

Why would WB Games remove DRM which still wasn't cracked? Plus from what I saw about this game, is that it's pretty much Batman: AK clone, but in Mad Max universe.

Because it has been cracked, and other devs have been stripping it out of their games. Like the new Doom.

Its no longer the magical unicorn of protection.

Yup, but it took a time to crack the game and Denuvo did what it needed to do: Prevent the piracy and thus loss of money.
There's still no way to crack Denuvo within first few weeks of the game release.

And now I suggest that we'll not derail this thread into the philosophical discussion about piracy, or Toady will smite me (or someone else) for discussing piracy.