Gaming Bargains (not Freebies)

mewso wrote: »

Decent sale of a few games on Origin - http://store2.origin.com/store/eaemea/en_IE/html/pbPage.floor_price_2013_en_IE/

Noteworthy for me were DA: Origins for €3 and DA 2 for €4.99. Have Origins but grabbed 2. Origin sales seem very random to me. For example Awakenings, the DA: Origins expansion is not on sale, Kingdoms of Amalur dlc is on sale but not the main game and so on. Strange.

Alice Madness returns, only 3eu... feck! thats worth getting even if you do need to install Origin! :pac:

The store is pretty useless and the interface is pretty but I imagine impractical for large amounts of games but over all its alright.

Worse than Steam. Better than Uplay

Civ V €3.40 http://www.nuuvem.com.br/produto/142-sid-meier-s-civilization-v

Jernal wrote: »

Get Brave New World here for €20.:p

Thats where I got my one.

http://www.gameholds.com/sid-meier-s-civilization-v-brave-new-world.html

McSasquatch wrote: »

Is it worth getting BNW immediately? That is, does it improve vanilla Civ V significantly?

Well.......... Its hard one. I was really opposed on that expansion as it is a bit pricy for what it is. I would really not pay full 30eu for it, but 20eu with a pain in wallet is not that bad.
The value you get from gold edition makes the new expansion to look like very bad deal. If you new to civ 5, I would recomend play civ for at least 10 hours. then have a look some of this guy vids. He is a fantastic at Civ 5 and he explains everything very well. Just by watching few of his videos I am a lot better civ gamer and I played Civ games since Civ 2.
When you will have Idea on how to play, then you will know better if its worth it. I got it just because I like to have complete games like Civ.

new Bundlestars out today for €4.55, all register on Steam

Galaxy on Fire 2 Full HD

Afterfall Insanity Extended Edition

Air Conflicts: Pacific Carriers

Cargo Commander

Disciples III: Renaissance

The Journey Down: Chapter 1

Kung Fu Strike: The Warrior's Rise

Dungeons: The Dark Lord

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space

Zeno Clash

McSasquatch wrote: »

If you missed the Orcs Must Die series during the Steam sale, Gamersgate have 75% off all OMD stuff currently.

Get it! Get it! Get it! Get it! Get it! Get it!
Game is a terrific amount of fun to play every now and again.
(Sorry I'm not quite out of Steam Sale mode yet. )

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Has origin improved or is it terrible? My girlfriend and I are both nearly finished dragon age and want to get 2. Find it difficult to even find out whats on sale on it, you would think they would promote it better.

Corvo Attano wrote: »

The store is pretty useless and the interface is pretty but I imagine impractical for large amounts of games but over all its alright.

Worse than Steam. Better than Uplay

I still think Origin is woeful. I had forgotten about it because I hadn't had to use it since Mass Effect 3 but Battlefield 3 forced me to use it too and it was dreadful. It took me 2 days to download 9GB from Gamefly and then Origin wanted to install another 13GB which took well over a week. Main problems I had were:

• The software crashed several times a day while being left to download which was annoying.
• It was slower than other programs at downloading, usually getting less than 50% of the speed on most sites and it often slowed down over time to dial up speeds of about 3 or 4 kbps which meant I had to restart it to set it straight again.
• More than once, I had left it overnight expecting it to get through several gigs by the time I woke up to find it had paused itself after about half an hour and made barely any progress.

Definitely worse than Uplay for me, and I really don't like Uplay. Had some problems with it trying and failing to sync files with the cloud too. Apart from that, when the game actually got started I didn't get many problems.

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Well.......... Its hard one. I was really opposed on that expansion as it is a bit pricy for what it is. I would really not pay full 30eu for it, but 20eu with a pain in wallet is not that bad.
The value you get from gold edition makes the new expansion to look like very bad deal. If you new to civ 5, I would recomend play civ for at least 10 hours. then have a look some of this guy vids. He is a fantastic at Civ 5 and he explains everything very well. Just by watching few of his videos I am a lot better civ gamer and I played Civ games since Civ 2.
When you will have Idea on how to play, then you will know better if its worth it. I got it just because I like to have complete games like Civ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APV2gMen7kc

Does he have many games for vanilla Civ 5 or the Gods and Kings version? I'm interested in seeing someone helpful but I don't have Brave New World and probably won't for a while.

I have a tradeable coupon for 75% off portal 2 on steam until july 31st if anyone wants to trade for it add me on steam.