@TABSF
Good call, though that THQ might only be described as really only one example, and at least one of those games is free to download legally for the PC (Full Spectrum Warrior - you wus robbed, LOL!).
The problem with a pack of anything, including games, is this: how many of those will you actually want to play? how many did you have already? and how many will you honestly want to ditch after playing a demo's worth?
And HMV are doing L4D2 (for PC again) for £14.99 d...
Over hear in the UK Amazon & Play are nearly always cheaper than Steam (and D2D) - I've bought all my Steam/Valve games as retail boxed copies from Play or Amazon (and we're not talking via their marketplace) - in some cases I saved up to 10 or 12 quid.
Amazon don't appear to have that offer on in the UK but they're selling L4D2 at their 'standard' price of £25, whereas Steam have it for £30. Today Killing floor is £9.42 on Amazon as opposed to £14.99 on Steam, O...
Dr Tenebaum, you're alive!
Bring it back to the PC - the first one was excellent. I almost reloaded it yesterday - I think I will do that right now.
It's on Amazon for £11.33! But I still can't beleive it's finally been re-released.
You'd expect a game that was this hyped, and priced noticeably higher than comparable releases, to have had a bit more time spent on it's development.
I can wait, I'm patient
Amazon have just raised the price back up to £14.99
I abhor cheating, which is probably why I've never really bothered to do much on-line gaming, but has anyone stopped to consider that if you did exactly the same in the real-world then you'd blow up too?
I've just googled it to see it in action and to be honest it looks like an easy sort of thing to do - hell, there's been many a time I've accidentally blown myself up (another reason I don't play competitively?) with a dropped or short tossed grenade.
And one further point, I re...
$20 = £11.97 (at least for today)
In the UK, Amazon are doing it already for £11.55 inc p+p and you get a hard copy - it's a no-brainer.
When will people realise that D2D, Steam etc aren't necessarily going to be the cheapest even if you're seemingly avoiding the expense of a hard copy and postage. Borderlands on D2D is $50 (£29.96) - Amazon UK £24.99, Play £17.99!
And I noticed that D2D are selling Area51 which is a free download anyway.
Not so if you consider that to buy 800 MS points you actually have to buy in multiples of 1000.
When it's free, or when all the DLC is released via Steam or on CD, then I'll buy it but not until then - I refuse to use GFW to buy stuff.
Bollocks!
Just for the sheer hell of it I hooked up two 1680*1050 (3360*1050 res) monitors to my GTX260 (an average card?) and the L4D2 demo ran rather well and didn't look at all bad.
... 'Time Gentlemen Please!'
I'll put my money where my mouth is and shut up, er I mean, not buy it.
Rainbow 6 Vegas (1&2)
Far Cry 2
Most (if not all) Splintercell titles
GRiD
DiRT
Burnout Paradise
Gears Of War
Beyond Good & Evil
Tomb Raider series - yep, the lot from 1 to Underworld.
(apparently) Secret Of Monkey Island, Rayman Arena, Resident Evil 4 (I've not tried them)
5 screenshots? there's 43 of them. Also a lot of those jpg had filenames with the words 'concept', 'target' and even 'July' in them - I'm honestly not convinced that a lot of the 43 I saw are in-game (and I've seen many of them previously)
I was a bit surprised myself when I checked them just now. I can't remember the last time I bought, or even pre-ordered, a new PC title for more than £27 in the UK. Amazon.co.uk & Play.com are my chief sources - it's even been cheaper to buy Valve games from them than on Steam!
I tried the 7 beta on an old laptop, and liked what I saw, and I guess I will upgrade to 7 at some point, but even the lack of DX10 in XP hasn't been tempting enough yet (even though I had an 8800GTS a c...
"won't appeal to mom and dad any time soon"
This will amuse my non game-playing children (18 & 21). I just finished the main story yesterday with a mate (a father of 3 teenagers all 14+).