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Posted May 10, 2010
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Navagon: Does anyone know how UFO Extraterrestrials compares to the real thing? I've been playing a lot of the other UFO games recently (on GOG) so that offer seems tempting.
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trusteft: From what I have read (I don't have it), it plays like a younger wannabe clone of the original. Better graphics etc, but, not fighting on Earth, far less micromanagement (each lab comes with stock number of scientists), unlimited free or undying soldiers or something like that.
Basically a remake which tried too much to be both a remake and different enough.
My main issue with it is that it doesn't take place on Earth, which kind of ruins it for me.
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acare84: Gamersgate is making official space battle week. Good deals.
http://www.gamersgate.com/offers
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taczillabr: Some good space games there, not perfect, but good. Also they are selling Flotilla for $5, Impulse for $6, Steam for $9.
Anyone here played Genesis Rising and Light of Altair? How good are they?
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taczillabr: I have Genesis Rising, but I haven't tried it yet. I heard it is very good but hard game. I think you have a mothership which you upgrade between missions, plus some other ships and you fight in a branching missions campaign, battles. It sure looks good and I need to install it one day lol.
I never managed to make Light of Altair DEMO install without issues, so I don't know. You can try the demo and find out for yourself.

Been a while since I played ET without BMan's mod (the Gold version, technically), but I don't think you had infinite soldiers. Had to go with smaller teams a few times after screwing up. That being said, I don't think you could manually buy your soldiers.
That being said:
Compared to After*, insanely faithful and hardcore XCOM game.
Compared to XCOM itself, your mileage may vary. Good game that I love (and there are plenty of mods that make it even more XCOMy), but it is a sequel to a game that a lot of people wanted a sequel to. So no matter what, people will complain.
Posted May 10, 2010
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trusteft: My main issue with it is that it doesn't take place on Earth, which kind of ruins it for me.

Yeah, that's a very odd choice. A part of the appeal of XCOM was the defence of the Earth.
Posted May 10, 2010
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trusteft: My main issue with it is that it doesn't take place on Earth, which kind of ruins it for me.
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Navagon: Yeah, that's a very odd choice. A part of the appeal of XCOM was the defence of the Earth.

I think the upcoming prequel is going to be set on Earth :p
Posted May 10, 2010
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Gundato: I think the upcoming prequel is going to be set on Earth :p

Ah, I think I'll be best off waiting for that one then. Reading up on it, it seems like they've taken criticism of the first one on board, which is always a good thing.
Posted May 11, 2010
Aliens vs Predator $24.98
Empire: Total War $14.98
On Gametap, you need Steam to play these games.
http://www.gametap-shop.com/pc-games/GameTap_Deals.html
Posted May 11, 2010
http://shop.gameplay.co.uk/webstore/sale.asp?platform=PCS&cm_sp=sale-_-nav-_-PCS
Posted May 12, 2010
Amnesia: The Dark Descent for $10: http://www.frictionalgames.com/site/node/101
Only 2 hours left, hurry up. ;)
Posted May 12, 2010
Man, AI Wars package from the Gamersgate sale looks VERY tempting. I've been playing the demo these past days and I'm amazed at the depth of the game. Too bad I'll only get paid now next month and 30 dollars will be too much for me.
Posted May 12, 2010
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Balthier: and 30 dollars will be too much for me.
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Posted May 12, 2010
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Balthier: Man, AI Wars package from the Gamersgate sale looks VERY tempting. I've been playing the demo these past days and I'm amazed at the depth of the game. Too bad I'll only get paid now next month and 30 dollars will be too much for me.

It's $11.95 there, you know. Not even 20 reais. Buy it, you'll be glad you did. ;-)
Posted May 12, 2010
Portal is free for Windows and Mac until May 24th.
http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/
This is not as cool as paying whatever you want for 6 games, releasing the source code for 4 of them and being able to play them on Windows, Mac and Linux but is a close second :P
Post edited May 12, 2010 by OmegaX
Posted May 12, 2010
Today is your last chance to buy Shattered Horizon for $14.99 - 25 percent off: http://store.steampowered.com/app/18110/
Posted May 12, 2010
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OmegaX: Portal is free for Windows and Mac until May 24th.
http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/

........I love you.
Posted May 12, 2010
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OmegaX: Portal is free for Windows and Mac until May 24th.
http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/
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Rohan15: ........I love you.

C'mon... Who doesn't have the Orange Box, yet? Only the mac users and a few pc casual gamers.
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/portal_is_free_for_pc_or_mac_until_may_24th
Post edited May 12, 2010 by taczillabr
Posted May 12, 2010
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taczillabr: C'mon... Who doesn't have the Orange Box, yet? Only the mac users and a few pc casual gamers.
http://www.gog.com/en/forum/general/portal_is_free_for_pc_or_mac_until_may_24th

You do know that my post was first right? Besides the more people see this the better.
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