If you don't already have it, for the love of god GET IT. It's a stunning game, especially at this price.
Weekend Deal(s):
The other is... well, it's 75% off everything id Software's ever made.
Friendly reminder that Doom 3: BFG Edition requires Windows Vista or above. They really haven't advertised that fact well enough, and I've found more than a few people on the interwebs as frustrated as me about it.
Well, it's just Fallout day, so I guess one of the days will be the Elder Scrolls day and another day will be 'everything else Bethesda' day or something.
meh... it's still a brown zombie shooter, albeit a good one, in a sea of other brown/zombie shooters.
there are zombies in this game? Never found any of those in 70+ hours of playtime.
Also in time for QuackCon the Duck Tales remake is now available for preorder. With zero advantage for preordering. No extras, no lower price, no pre-load. No reason to preorder AT ALL. Especially considering the "quality" of Capcom ports in the past.
Let me take a few moments to talk about color palette in Fallout: New Vegas.
First, a couple REASONS TO BE BROWN:
The Mohave desert is kinda brown.
The original Fallouts were brown, in a time when brown was NOT the belle of the ball, and as a setting it was actually REFRESHING and cool. Fallout 2 is more than a decade older than the first Call of Duty.
Also:
New Vegas isn't brown.
It's definitely desaturated in most places, but it's not a flat brown.
Color in New Vegas is used extremely well, and like almost everything else in the presentation and many of the mechanics, ties back into the factions. The areas that are the most brown are meant to feel awful and oppressive, because they tend to be territory controlled by the Legion faction, whose initial image is brutal and oppressive. NCR territory is similar but brighter and you're starting to see life coming back, with splashes of green sneaking out where appropriate(again, we ARE looking at a real-life desert) and much brighter tones for the rocks and buildings.
The Vegas Strip, meanwhile, is a shining jewel at the center of the desert. It's a glowing oasis of neon.
Meanwhile, out in the mountains, you have snow and evergreens, based off Zion national park. Blue skies! Green trees! Gorgeous bright red rock!
Yeah, unlike New Vegas, FO3 doesn't use colors well at all. It's a brownish greyish indistinct mesh.
It changes up the color palette drastically for two gimmick sections though, the black and white "murder sitcom" Vault and the Harold reference area.
Yeah, it had a very pretty depressing color palette. Hopefully Bethesda will take note of New Vegas's style (and better gameplay, writing, etc.) for (the inevitable) Fallout 4.
While I think Fallout 3 is okay, I love New Vegas. Some of the core people at Obsidian worked on Fallout 1 and 2, and I think it shows with how New Vegas was crafted. They put a lot of love and care into the world and characters, and most of the major factions are some shade of grey instead of there being obvious good guys and bad guys (the exception would be Caesar's Legion, which is pretty much straight-up evil, though I heard that they would have been better developed had Bethesda gave Obsidian more time).
While I'm not too terribly excited about Fallout 4, I would probably make an embarrassing squeaky sound of joy if a new Obsidian-developed Fallout game was announced.
The lead designer on New Vegas is actually J.E. Sawyer, whose sense of worldbuilding is FANTASTIC. He didn't work on either of the original Fallouts, he was a web designer at Black Isle and didn't get a game credit until Icewind Dale a couple years after Fallout 2.
Also, as far as Caesar's Legion goes, there ARE a lot of hints in their storyline toward their greater depth(or at least the greater depth of Caesar himself), and depending on various actions you actually can poke around in there. Still, it's true that their faction ends up with the least amount of development and you can see the seams bursting when you spend time in the Legion camp.
Thankfully I no longer need to mention that you should get the Deluxe edition of Oblivion, because it's now the version they advertise as opposed to the standard GotY edition. Not exactly a thorough fix, but still...
I don't really feel that way about New Vegas, but I don't really feel anything about it. I'm bored with everything nowadays, and everything is just same ol same ol to me. My opinion right now is to be taken with a grain of salt, because my typical opinion right now is that something is boring and bland and I don't care about it. Don't even care about Lucasarts games right now.
If I hadn't read Dashing's post, I would be calling it another generic brown game too. I only explored the desert, but I never made it far enough to see any of the color he presents. I'm just not good enough at western RPGs to get further. I can't connect to a post-apocalyptic setting either. It makes me think of Mad Max and Waterworld, and I don't like Mad Max and Waterworld. About the only game I can think of I can get through like that is Full Throttle, but I'd probably play Full Throttle second last out of all LucasArts games.
And frankly, I'm tired of everyone connecting to things I can't connect to, so I pretty much want to pick on every instance of that.
By "let's go with that" I meant "let's go with that being what I meant."
The setting isn't really my thing. I couldn't get into Bioshock or Bioshock 2 either. Granted it's not in the desert, but it still has that "run down and deserted except for a bunch of crazies" vibe.
TTG's The Walking Dead game is slightly different in that the setting is less of an environment and almost a character in and of itself that the party interacts with.
Don't compare New Vegas to Bioshock. Irrational has crazy fanciful dreams where they have half of Sawyer's world-building skill. Bioshock is just a run-down tunnel filled with crazy people, New Vegas is a properly constructed game world. It's not either just a decrepit tunnel filled with crazies(Bioshock 1/2) or a big open wasteland filled to the brim with "stuff"("Fallout" 3), but a living, breathing world filled with deep politically-charged factions and people whose reactions to the world around them paints a solid picture of various cultures, creeds, and personal investment in the moving and shaking of the place they live in, and where this small area fits into the larger machinations of a bigger world which has for a long time been split into many smaller ones.
First of all - in news that should please a certain someone, Sonic Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed just got a new update, and as a result there's a new Total War: Rome II inspired character to play with. Good times for all!
As stated, Jack Keane's one of the deals and it's a fraction of the price GOG currently has it at (and it's still half price over there, ahem), so here's my usual reminder to bloody buy it.
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EDIT: Checked it out and jeez, that IS one hell of a price drop. I knew it wasn't doing all that well, but dropping it that cheap? Wow.
...but you won't.
If you don't already have it, for the love of god GET IT. It's a stunning game, especially at this price.
Weekend Deal(s):
The other is... well, it's 75% off everything id Software's ever made.
Friendly reminder that Doom 3: BFG Edition requires Windows Vista or above. They really haven't advertised that fact well enough, and I've found more than a few people on the interwebs as frustrated as me about it.
As stated, the QuakeCon deal of the day is...
And here's something that got buried. Celebrating the new 'Good Friends' DLC for Bit.TRIP RUNNER 2...
BIT.TRIP RUNNER 2
BIT.TRIP RUNNER 2: Good Friends DLC
Cave Story+
Machinarium
Portal 2
Psychonauts
Super Meat Boy
Bear in mind most people will already own most of these games, so it's not THAT great a bundle.
there are zombies in this game? Never found any of those in 70+ hours of playtime.
Also in time for QuackCon the Duck Tales remake is now available for preorder. With zero advantage for preordering. No extras, no lower price, no pre-load. No reason to preorder AT ALL. Especially considering the "quality" of Capcom ports in the past.
Yeah that isn't at all how I'd describe New Vegas.
I'm not saying it's a bad game. I'm saying color me disinterested.
First, a couple REASONS TO BE BROWN:
The Mohave desert is kinda brown.
The original Fallouts were brown, in a time when brown was NOT the belle of the ball, and as a setting it was actually REFRESHING and cool. Fallout 2 is more than a decade older than the first Call of Duty.
Also:
New Vegas isn't brown.
It's definitely desaturated in most places, but it's not a flat brown.
Color in New Vegas is used extremely well, and like almost everything else in the presentation and many of the mechanics, ties back into the factions. The areas that are the most brown are meant to feel awful and oppressive, because they tend to be territory controlled by the Legion faction, whose initial image is brutal and oppressive. NCR territory is similar but brighter and you're starting to see life coming back, with splashes of green sneaking out where appropriate(again, we ARE looking at a real-life desert) and much brighter tones for the rocks and buildings.
The Vegas Strip, meanwhile, is a shining jewel at the center of the desert. It's a glowing oasis of neon.
Meanwhile, out in the mountains, you have snow and evergreens, based off Zion national park. Blue skies! Green trees! Gorgeous bright red rock!
It changes up the color palette drastically for two gimmick sections though, the black and white "murder sitcom" Vault and the Harold reference area.
Yeah, it had a very pretty depressing color palette. Hopefully Bethesda will take note of New Vegas's style (and better gameplay, writing, etc.) for (the inevitable) Fallout 4.
While I'm not too terribly excited about Fallout 4, I would probably make an embarrassing squeaky sound of joy if a new Obsidian-developed Fallout game was announced.
Also, as far as Caesar's Legion goes, there ARE a lot of hints in their storyline toward their greater depth(or at least the greater depth of Caesar himself), and depending on various actions you actually can poke around in there. Still, it's true that their faction ends up with the least amount of development and you can see the seams bursting when you spend time in the Legion camp.
Nah, you're wrong about that.
It's meh, it's another post-apocalyptic setting in the desert, in a sea of post-apocalyptic settings in the desert.
On the QuackCon today it's ElderScrolls Day.
Thankfully I no longer need to mention that you should get the Deluxe edition of Oblivion, because it's now the version they advertise as opposed to the standard GotY edition. Not exactly a thorough fix, but still...
Hey. Changing that took 2 (or is it 3?) years. It's a milestone.
Nah. You're wrong about that.
I don't really feel that way about New Vegas, but I don't really feel anything about it. I'm bored with everything nowadays, and everything is just same ol same ol to me. My opinion right now is to be taken with a grain of salt, because my typical opinion right now is that something is boring and bland and I don't care about it. Don't even care about Lucasarts games right now.
If I hadn't read Dashing's post, I would be calling it another generic brown game too. I only explored the desert, but I never made it far enough to see any of the color he presents. I'm just not good enough at western RPGs to get further. I can't connect to a post-apocalyptic setting either. It makes me think of Mad Max and Waterworld, and I don't like Mad Max and Waterworld. About the only game I can think of I can get through like that is Full Throttle, but I'd probably play Full Throttle second last out of all LucasArts games.
And frankly, I'm tired of everyone connecting to things I can't connect to, so I pretty much want to pick on every instance of that.
The setting isn't really my thing. I couldn't get into Bioshock or Bioshock 2 either. Granted it's not in the desert, but it still has that "run down and deserted except for a bunch of crazies" vibe.
TTG's The Walking Dead game is slightly different in that the setting is less of an environment and almost a character in and of itself that the party interacts with.
Today's QuakeCon Deal is...
So sadly, Brink, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Hunted: The Demon's Forge or Rogue Warrior will not be going below 25% off.
Anyway. Today's Two-Day Deal is 75% off...
And there's some Week-Long Deals as well. The list:
Ankh 2/3 - 75% off
Jack Keane - 75% off (BUY IT BUY IT BUY IT)
Lucid - 75% off
Magrunner: Dark Pulse - 33% off ("Technology meets Cthulhu"? Colour me intrigued...)
PAM: Post Apocalyptic Mayhem (and DLC) - 75% off
Supreme Commander 2 (and DLC) - 66% off
As stated, Jack Keane's one of the deals and it's a fraction of the price GOG currently has it at (and it's still half price over there, ahem), so here's my usual reminder to bloody buy it.
The Midweek Deals:
Little bit surprised to see RE:R go on offer so quickly. Then again, it IS a 3DS port...