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Daily Deal: STORM: Frontline Nation - 75% off, $10.00

Metacritic has 3 reviews: 80, 70, 20.

If you're looking for hex-based gaming, there's always the:

Weekend Deal: Sid Meier's Civilization® V - 75% off, $12.50

Metacritic - 90

Civilization V Digital Deluxe - 75% off, $15.00
Deluxe Edition Includes:
- Bonus Babylon Civilization with leader "Nebuchadnezzar II"
- Behind the Scenes at Firaxis with Civ V video feature
- Game Soundtrack
Extra content in the Digital Deluxe Edition is not available on Mac
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hmmm...storm sounds kind of fun, even with some of the mediocre reviews. i'll have to check in with tgb to see what his final thoughts on the game were.
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hepcat wrote:hmmm...storm sounds kind of fun, even with some of the mediocre reviews. i'll have to check in with tgb to see what his final thoughts on the game were.
indeed, it may be worth a look
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Civ V for $12.50? Sold! Been waiting a while for it to drop.
Is the Deluxe version worth the extra $2.50? I'll probably get it anyhow for the video/soundtrack.
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ChaoZ wrote:Civ V for $12.50? Sold! Been waiting a while for it to drop.
Is the Deluxe version worth the extra $2.50? I'll probably get it anyhow for the video/soundtrack.
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Not had a CIV game since the first or second one. Maybe I should buy it?
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Don't forget the Need for Speed Franchise sale too.
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Daehawk wrote:Not had a CIV game since the first or second one. Maybe I should buy it?
I think the 4th one may be better regarded than the 5th, but they're both good.
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Defiant wrote:
Daehawk wrote:Not had a CIV game since the first or second one. Maybe I should buy it?
I think the 4th one may be better regarded than the 5th, but they're both good.
I dropped $15 on the deluxe. Figured it may have more fun in it.
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Kasey Chang wrote:Don't forget the Need for Speed Franchise sale too.
I typically get the items from the News feed. They didn't ever actually post anything about the NFS sale:
  • Undercover (Meta 65) - $2.49
  • Shift (83) - $5.00
  • Hot Pursuit (86) - $10.20
  • Shift 2 Unleashed (84) - $14.99
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Daily Deal: Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure - 50% off, $2.49

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Daily Deal: Elven Legacy Collection - 66% off, $5.10
  • Elven Legacy - 67%, $1.66 (Metascore 71)
  • EL: Magic - 67%, $1.66
  • EL: Ranger - 67%, $1.66 (Metascore 68)
  • EL: Seige - 67%, $1.66
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Daily Deal: PuzzleQuest: Challenge of the Warlords - 67% off, $3.33

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Daily Deal: Call of Juarez®: Bound in Blood - 75% off, $5.00

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Isgrimnur wrote:Daily Deal: PuzzleQuest: Challenge of the Warlords - 67% off, $3.33

MetaCritic 84
BEWARE! Crack-like addiction tendencies with this one (surprisingly, considering the premise, which is a Bejeweled game with RPG elements!).

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Isgrimnur wrote:Daily Deal: Call of Juarez®: Bound in Blood - 75% off, $5.00

Metacritic 78

Oooh...right at my cutoff in terms of Metacritic score. Can anyone vouch for (or against) this title?

I feel guilty for not having the ability or patience to get past the horse race in Red Dead Redemption, much to my chagrin. Thought this might fill that void instead.

OTOH, why am I even asking...it's $5!
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I picked up Elven Legacy on the sale. What a great game so far. I started playing early evening and didn't even realize that it had passed midnight!
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Isgrimnur wrote:Daily Deal: PuzzleQuest: Challenge of the Warlords - 67% off, $3.33
MetaCritic 84
Darn, have this game already in box form. :) ALSO played it on my phone to the end too.
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Carpet_pissr wrote:
Isgrimnur wrote:Daily Deal: Call of Juarez®: Bound in Blood - 75% off, $5.00

Metacritic 78

Oooh...right at my cutoff in terms of Metacritic score. Can anyone vouch for (or against) this title?

I feel guilty for not having the ability or patience to get past the horse race in Red Dead Redemption, much to my chagrin. Thought this might fill that void instead.

OTOH, why am I even asking...it's $5!
Pretty good. Played through the first one twice and the 2nd one once.
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Daily Deal: Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! - 50% off, $4.99

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Midweek Madness: Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 - 50% off, $4.99.

Special Edition - 50% off, $9.99
The Special Edition includes:
  • Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012
  • 10 Foil Conversions
  • Humanoids Persona Picture Pack (exclusive to Special Edition)
  • D12 sound track
  • Planeswalkers web comic PDF
  • Exclusive D12 wall papers
Complete Bundle - 40% off, $17.99
Includes the Duels 2012 Expansion that launches September 14th, 2011!
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Awesome, buying that tonight. Though I'll probably just get the base game and wait for the expansion to go on similar sale later on.
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Isgrimnur wrote:Daily Deal: Dangerous High School Girls in Trouble! - 50% off, $4.99

Metascore - 81
This is strangely addicting. It's basically a mix between a board-game and card game with some light RPG elements. I wouldn't pay more than $5 for it but it has pretty good writing and is an interesting change of pace if you like more casual games.
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I have it on good authority it's rrmorton's favorite game.
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Daily Deal: Restaurant Empire II - 66% off, $6.80

Paradox is having a five-day event.

Day 1: Cities in Motion + DLC

Collection - 75% off, $9.99
  • Cities in Motion - $4.99
  • Design Classics - $1.24
  • Design Marvels - $1.24
  • Design Now - $1.24
  • Tokyo - $2.49
Also, the Paradox Complete Collection is available for 87% off, $99.99
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Cities in Motion was the public transportation game, right? Did that wind up being any good? For $5....
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Yup. I played the demo. It was mildly interesting to me, but not enough so to add it to my backlog. I can see it being enjoyable for people that are more into that type of stuff. YMMV.

We had a nice little discussion back on Page 1, and the base game price is $1.75 cheaper than it was back on 7/18.

And since I've posted, they've added Metro Stations to the the Collection, normally $2.99, individually on sale for $0.74.
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Lots of the Paradox stuff is 50% off. You can play press-your-luck and see if it gets the 75% off treatment but lots of good deals either way. Magicka, Mount & Blade, Majesty...
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Daily Deal: BIT.TRIP BEAT - 75% off, $2.50

Paradox Day 2:

Sengoku - 20% off, $23.99

Strategy Pack - 80% off, $57.99
Made up of Hearts of Iron, Europa Universalis, Pride of Nations, Supreme Ruler, and Victoria stuff. Most stuff in it is 75% off on an individual basis.
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Is there a specific Paradox strategy title best for n00bs?

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Weekend Deal: Star Wars Collection - 50% off, $49.99
  • Battlefront 2 (50%, $4.99)
  • Dark Forces
  • Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
  • Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy
  • Jedi Knight - Mysteries of the Sith
  • Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast
  • Republic Commando (50%, $4.99)
  • Starfighter
  • Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
  • The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition
  • The Force Unleashed II
  • KOTOR (50%, $4.99)
  • Empire at War Gold Pack (50%, $9.99)
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*sigh* I already have most of those... (Star Wars stuff, that is).
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Battlefront 2, Rep. Commando or Empire at War Gold pack?

Pick one only! (and yes I realize they are different genres...TOUGH!:D)
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Carpet_pissr wrote:Battlefront 2, Rep. Commando or Empire at War Gold pack?

Pick one only! (and yes I realize they are different genres...TOUGH!:D)
Battlefront 2: group shooter like Battlefield series

Rep Commando: single player shooter with a bit of "command" thing as you command the squaddies to do somethings (to break the infinite spawns, basically)

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Never tried Battlefront..was no interests there. The other two..Commandos and Empires at War are both great games...do you like shooters or rts/4x?
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Daehawk wrote:Never tried Battlefront..was no interests there. The other two..Commandos and Empires at War are both great games...do you like shooters or rts/4x?
Well, I did love Age of Empires, if that helps? I like shooters also, if by that you mean FPS? I USED to like RTS before I turned into an old gamer (shakes a feeble fist at the young punks). Meaning, I like the older, slower RTS games that kind of started the whole genre (Warcraft, C&C, AoE, etc). As the genre matured, they became too much for me to handle...they seemed to go from a fun experience to some kind of hyped up, stressful micro management chore that required research about units and counters, huge charts, etc.
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Well Commandos is a shooter but you get a squad of 3 others to command. You can tell them where to go to cover and stuff which makes it pretty fun for me.

I would say EAW is a slow rts strategy game. You have a system map and can move fleets and such to planets. once there you can invade the planet and it changes to a slow rts game. It's very slow. it's more of you moving from point A to point B and fighting stuff to get there. You can set up a few things in certain plays but it is not a full on open rts down there.
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What would be more fun playing MP with the kids, Battlefront or Commando?
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Jag wrote:What would be more fun playing MP with the kids, Battlefront or Commando?
Well Commandos mp is simply forms of deathmatch. There is no co-op in it.Which is too bad because it would have been a lot of fun that way.

No experience with Battlefront.
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I believe you can play Battlefront with bots on either side. It can be kinda fun as you two play on the same side, with bots against whole slew of enemy bots.
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