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Since Assassin's Creed III turned out to be pretty much unplayable on my rig, I had to find my open-world fix elsewhere. So I started playing Sleeping Dogs. So far it's pretty damn good. I'm really digging the Hong Kong setting and martial arts vibe. It's a nice change from the usual american gangster stuff these kinds of game usually have. Other than that I've been slowly playing through Hitman: Absolution. It's far from perfect but fuck the haters, I'm enjoying the hell out of it.

Yeah, I'd recommend doing a normal run first, if only to familiarize yourself with the game and the tech three. But once you've learned the ropes I feel Ironman is the only way to play it.

The difference is that's the "spirit" of XCOM. It's meant to have an actual failure state but they made it optional to be more accessible. The game is much more tense and engaging when you can lose your soldiers for realsies. Think of it like this: it's more about dealing with and planning around loss than it is about avoiding it.

GeForce GTX 295. It's dated but I'd still expect it to be able to handle anything that's on current-gen consoles. At first I figured it was the card but it sounds like some people with high-end cards are also having similar issues, so who knows.

Well, looks like the PC version isn't optimized for shit. Either that or the system requirements are wildly off because I'm well above the minimum specs and mostly meet the recommended (just a bit under in VRAM) yet the frame rate drops to unplayable levels as soon as I get to Boston. I get 30+ inside buildings and in smaller environments, sometimes even up to 70. But as soon as I step outside, I'm averaging 15 fps. :/ So, yeah, glad I dropped 65$ on that... Hopefully there'll be a patch soon that improves things but I'm not really holding my breath. Guess it's time to upgrade Oh well, at least Hitman runs fine...

No such luck. Neither the beta driver or tweaking the settings fixed it.

Have you been experiencing any kind of graphical glitches? I just gave it a shot as well and right at the beginning I'm getting these weird colors in the characters' hair, like the light reflecting on them isn't rendering properly or something. So Desmond ends up with red and purple patches in his hair. It's kind of annoying. I'm downloading the beta driver, hopefully that'll fix it. But I did some quick googling and can't seem to find anything about it, so I was curious.

Resonance is great. I really need to finish it. I'm pretty sure I was very close to the end but it's kinda hard to get back into a point-and-click when you haven't played in a while. Can't even remember why I stopped... :/

So, uh, holy shit. Six dollars. Six fucking dollars. It's 66% off on GMG (only until tomorrow morning, I think) and I had 7$ of store credit left. Just... wow. I was thinking I might pick it up during the Steam christmas sale, but shit, I don't think it's even going to be anywhere near that cheap.

Not sure if this is old news since I've been avoiding this thread since the console version came out but I just got my key from Amazon and it turns out the Benedict Arnold DLC was only PS3-exclusive as far as consoles go because it's listed under the DLC tab on Steam. So that's pretty cool. Less cool is I didn't get my key in time to preload, so I just got home and I've got over 15GB to download. So looks like I'll be sticking to Hitman for tonight

Dishonored. Took me longer than I would've liked since I've barely had any time to play the past couple weeks but I finally got around to playing the last two missions this week-end. I already mentioned how much I loved it and why in the "What are you currently playing" thread, so I won't repeat myself here. All I want to add is that the ending is pretty anticlimatic and there isn't much payoff to the story. But that's not that big a deal considering the gameplay is absolutely fantastic.

I concur.

All bundled for 7,50$ on Amazon.com. There's also an option for Steam keys, so that's nice. I heard that the PC versions aren't that great and that 2 has some performance issues, but it was dirt cheap and they seem like fun games, so what the hell. After ACIII and now this, I'm really glad I went to the trouble of making that fake US account for Spec Ops a few months ago

I regretted not participating last year. Count me in this time.

Humble Bundle for Android 4. First time I get one of the Android ones since it's the first one to include games i don't already own. Those would be Splice and Waking Mars.

Yeah, I really lucked out on that one. Glad I wasn't the only one who got to take advantage of it.

Yup, it was 10$. Also, looks like Amazon has updated the ACIII page. New list price is 79,99$, which makes more sense. Base price of 49,99$ plus 30$ for the season pass. It's still selling for 65$ at a 19% discount, though. Wouldn't be surprised if that went up soon, so if anyone else is interested, you might want to act fast.

Ha, that would be a first. "So, guys, turns out our content isn't very good. So, we're going to be charging you less."

Yeah, seems like a really low price if it's actually included. I honestly expected the deluxe edition to cost about this much without it.

Got sick of waiting for Steam pre-orders to be up and came across this on Amazon.com 65$ for the digital deluxe edition and, according to the description, it's a Steam key AND it includes the season pass. Sounds way too good to be true but I didn't want to risk waiting in case it was just a pricing error. Also, looks like they wait until release to charge you, so I can still cancel anytime if something changes.

I'm currently playing through Dishonored as well and I am loving the hell out of it. The opening level didn't make much of an impression, but as soon as I started the first proper mission and started exploring, man I got really excited. This is a game I've been waiting a really long time to play. This is basically Thief in all but name. Combat is a much more viable option in Dishonored, obviously. And some of those kill animations are just glorious. But the satisfaction that comes from sneaking around on rootfops, pickpocketing people's keys and coin, breaking into people's houses and emptying their safes, no kill will ever be more satisfying than that to me. Earlier tonight, I was eavesdropping on two dudes. Then their conversation ended and they went their separate ways. I slowed down time, blinked behind one of them, snatched his house key and blinked right back to my hiding spot without being caught. How fucking awesome is that?!!?! Also, on the first mission I was kind of stuck trying to find the combination to some guy's safe. I figured it would be like most games and the game would just tell me once I got it. Turns out I already had it from reading through the guy's notes, the game just didn't point it out to me. There are strong hints in your mission clues journal but you actually have to do some investigating for yourself. I fucking love it. If it wasn't for XCOM having managed to suck around 80 hours out of me in less than three weeks, I'd already be calling Dishonored my favorite game of 2012.

I'm canadian and even I don't know what the hell that means.

Ended up with a bit more extra cash than anticipated for the month, so I grabbed this on GMG. 35$ using the current voucher and my store credit. Played the first hour or so tonight but I don't think I'll be able to really dig into it until next week. Got a midterm to prepare for so I'll be spending most of the weekend solving math problems.

Been meaning to get it since it came out. The soundtrack edition was less than a dollar more because of the current sale, so I went for it. Other than that, there's not a whole lot that interests me in the Steam Halloween sale. I'll probably get Condemned: Criminal Origins now that it's available on Steam since I've wanted to play that one for years, but that's about it.