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Well, this sounds kind of awesome. http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/03/assassins-creed-3-dlc-tells-the-alternate-history-of-king-wash/ I think I just might get the season pass.

Hahaha, damn. I'd figured the pearls were shopped but I was under the impression the colors were originally there and that they'd changed it. It sort of can't be unseen, though. So I clearly see it even in the orange version now.

Yeah, I can imagine it working great with 4 and 5 because of the stop and shoot controls. But with how fast the characters move in 6, it would just be a huge clusterfuck.

At least it's not as blatant as the london olympics' "Lisa blowing Bart" logo. I refuse to believe that one wasn't intentional. I mean look at it!

Kicked myself for not getting it when it was this cheap during the summer sale so I jumped on it this time. Also grabbed this a few days ago I never got around to buying the PSP version and this includes some of the extras from the XBLA release, so it was a no-brainer.

Well... shit. Those five episodes went by way too fast I'll miss the Ponds.

Beat Assassin's Creed Brotherhood a couple of days ago but only got around to playing the Da Vinci Disappearance DLC today. It was much better than I expected. The DLC sequences in AC2 were kind of all over the place and killed the pacing of the game so it's not like the bar was very high to begin with. But yeah, unless Steam puts Revelations on sale in the near future, I'm pretty much done "preparing" for ACIII.

Decided I might as well get it right away since it also came down to 36$ using a voucher on GMG. Two triple-A pre-orders for just a little over 70$. That's one way of competing with Steam Hard to argue with those prices. And that should be all the big game purchases I make until Assassin's Creed III. I'll probably get the Zone of the Enders HD Collection at the end of october but other than that there's nothing else on my radar.

Hahaha, no. I actually really love Civ V. I meant crap in the sense that it would be pointless since I already own the game so I'd just get an extra copy sitting in my inventory. edit: also, forgot to post it but I grabbed this a few days ago. Had some troubles getting used to the controls at first but I'm starting to really love it.

36$ with Green Man Gaming's trade-in discount. I'm missing out on the TF2 items and potential free Civ V by not getting it directly from Steam but that's all crap I'll end up trying to trade away anyway so I might as well save the 15$ right now.

4 more games added to Beat the Average. I already own 3 of them since they were included in previous bundles but it's still not bad at all. The new one is Wizorb, which actually looks kinda cool.

Well, finally got around to giving the RE6 demo a shot just now and.... ugh. I guess I shouldn't be mad at Capcom, they're saving me 60 bucks after all. I liked RE5 despite its flaws but what I've just played wasn't disappointing, it was downright bad. They've obviously dropped all pretense of being a horror game. I mean, even Leon's supposed "traditional" campaign felt like a clumsy action title. And then the Chris level was just plain stupid. I guess Capcom just don't know how to make these games anymore... Between this and the new Splinter Cell replacing Michael Ironside... it's getting kinda disheartening to see some of my favorite series from my teenage years just start turning to crap.

I only got to play the beta briefly, not enough for it to make any kind of impression. You're probably not wrong about the anti-D3 sentiments but I've also seen a lot of hyperbole about how much better Torchlight 2 would be. I wouldn't go so far as to say the game disappointed me, though. I just let my expectations get a bit too high, I guess. You pretty much summed it up perfectly: good game, but not revolutionary in the least. For the entire first act I felt like it was much better than Diablo 3 but about halfway through Act 2 the novelty kinda wore off and I realized it's pointless to even try and compare the two. They're just designed too differently. In some areas, I prefer how Torchlight 2 does things and in others I prefer how Diablo 3 does it.

Just beat Torchlight II. It's a massive improvement over the original in every conceivable way and at only 20$ it's probably the best value I've had for a game this year (especially considering I traded a CS:GO beta invite for it and didn't have to pay ). That being said, there was a massive amount of hype built up for it (especially after Diablo 3 came out and lots of people were unhappy with it) and I feel it didn't really live up to it. I'll probably elaborate on my thoughts in the Torchlight thread later.

What's coming across as entitled is that everyone got the game at the same time, yet you argued that you should have gotten it earlier. Anyway, about 3 hours in. It is fucking incredible. I'm one of those who actually really liked Diablo 3 but man, Torchlight II really blows it right the fuck out of the water.

Right, lately that's been happening sometimes. Darksiders 2 and Max Payne 3 are two recent examples that had "midnight" releases (both unlocked at 1AM in my case). But before that, for as long as I've been using Steam, all new releases have unlocked at a fixed time, which is the same time the store updates: 10AM in Valve's timezone (1PM in mine). So it sounds like Torchlight II is being released at the regular time. It can't possibly be the first time a game unlocks at that time in the UK. I guess if the EU has a different release date than the US, then they probably adjust the unlock time to fit that region's schedule. But since this is a simultaneous release across all regions, it makes perfect sense that Runic would time it according to their own timezone.

I'd never seen Steam games get midnight releases until pretty recently, tbh. Also, at what time do games usually unlock in your region, Dean? Because the current timer for Torchlight II puts unlock time at 1PM for me, which in my region is the regular time for both game unlocks and store updates. I thought that happened simultaneously across all regions. Furthermore, Steam timers have been known to be wrong and get corrected in the past. If Runic themselves say they haven't picked a final time yet, then whatever you're seeing right now could change any time between now and release.

Didn't they confirm a while back that they were PC-exclusive this time around? Also, tonight? Is it unlocking around midnight in some regions? Steam says there's still 23 hours to go for me.

Not surprised in the least but we have the first confirmed case of a big publisher trying to abuse Kickstarter. http://www.destructoid.com/publishers-accused-of-trying-to-exploit-kickstarter-235292.phtml Too bad no names are given. I understand why but I'm really curious.

Transformers: War for Cybertron. I'm not much of a transformers fan but it was actually pretty good. I won't be getting the sequel for a while, though. Not paying full price for that.

Yeah, they're trying to turn into a brand something that isn't really one. Slapping the name on that new studio working on C&C was just weird and stupid.

I bought the Humble Bundle 6 as well. Also bought this a few days ago. Haven't spent much time on it yet but I enjoyed the hour or so I spent with it so far.

Yeah, I already owned half the games but it was worth it for Dustforce and its soundtrack alone. I was also curious about Rochard but not enough to buy it on its own. I'd never even heard of Vessel, though.