BS4 is the only bad one in the series.
BS2 is worse than BS1 but still a high-quality and entertaining adventure game.
BS3 is different in gameplay and features QTE's in some action sequences, which I actually liked. It has a really compelling story and good humour. Only thing I didn't like about it is the annoying box-pushing puzzles.
In BS4 the George Stobbart-humour that plays so heavily into the first 3 games is practically non-existant. But by all means, get it if you like the rest of the series.
Are they any good? I have Broken Sword 1, but I remember people on here complaining about BS2 at some point in the past.
The beginning of BS2 is meh. (I hate the boy-catfight-over-Nico-scene) but after that there is still a solid adventure game. Get the second one at least.
The original Broken Sword had a horrific puzzle involving a goat (not like that, get your mind out of the gutter) that seriously soured people's enjoyment of the game, but the rest of it is pretty good. Broken Sword 2 is the only game in the series that deviates from the Templars theme the rest of the series has going on, so it's sometimes thought of as the black sheep of the series. It's not, since it's still a good game, it just has a very different setting. BS3 is surprisingly similar to recent Telltale games in the way it controls, but block puzzles and forced stealth elements aside, it's a pretty good game. BS4 was developed by another company and it shows. There's an over-reliance on using a Flash-style light-on-mirrors minigame in lieu of actual puzzles, the dialogue is substandard, the plot unimaginative, the locations often rather empty and there's very little humour to be found. It not a good 'end' to the series.
There's actually a fan-game set in between BS2 and 3 called, funnily enough, Broken Sword 2.5. It's freely available on the net, so give it a go. I enjoyed it, and so might you.
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Today's Daily Deal is the Delta Force Platinum Pack, which is both Delta Force: Black Hawk Down and its expansion, Team Sabre. The pack is £5.43 / $6.79.
Individually Black Hawk Down is £3.73 / $5.09, and Team Sabre is £2.37 / $3.39.
The ah, other Midweek Madness (the previous one was the latest Deus Ex, it's at the bottom of the previous page if you missed it) is Batman: Arkham Asylum and Lego Batman, oddly enough. £9.99 / $19.99 for the pair, which doesn't quite add up, but hey ho, you've probably got them both already.
They just released Broken Sword 4 as well, but it's not on sale.
That's actually great timing as I've just been looking into trying to buy it again recently due to my playing the director's cut of Broken Sword which made me want to play the original (and superior) version again which in turn has led to the desire to play though the whole series again but I've lost my Broken Sword 4 which I got when it first came out and now I can get it again at a reasonable price. Yay!
but hey ho, you've probably got them both already.
I...do? Because I don't own either. Only 7 of my 31 Steam friends owns Arkham Asylum, and only one owns LEGO Batman.
Also, though it wasn't the case when the deal went up, they are now BOTH HALF OFF INDIVIDUALLY. This is a far nicer deal if you just want to get one or the other without getting a weird package deal.
The point I was trying to make was that they've both been on offer before (many a time, in Arkham Asylum's case) so if you'd had an interest in them, chances are you've already bought them. Also, it's a bit of an odd combination.
Anyway, you're right, they are both reduced on their own. Individually, they're both £4.99 / $9.99 (which, IIRC, is the price I paid for them when they were previously on sale, and is, if you're willing to do the math, a penny/cent cheaper than buying the pack!).
Today's Daily Deal is Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes, a satirical RPG that actually doesn't seem too bad, despite me never hearing of it before (possibly due to its clunky name). £3.74 / $4.99
Today's Daily Deal is the Commandos Collection. That's the first three games, and the stand-alone expansion for the first one, for £5.99 / $7.49. Each individual title is £1.99 / $2.49.
Also, the Weekend Deal is Alice: Madness Returns. Half price at £14.99 / $14.99, which is poor conversion at its finest, because if it WERE properly converted to a tenner, I'd probably have bought it.
Today's Daily Deal is the Commandos Collection. That's the first three games, and the stand-alone expansion for the first one, for £5.99 / $7.49. Each individual title is £1.99 / $2.49.
Also, the Weekend Deal is Alice: Madness Returns. Half price at £14.99 / $14.99, which is poor conversion at its finest, because if it WERE properly converted to a tenner, I'd probably have bought it.
Another weekend deal is the Grand Theft Auto collection, all of which is on offer to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the series. There's some seriously bizarre pricing, but here's the rundown:
Grand Theft Auto 1: N/A on its own Grand Theft Auto 2: N/A on its own Grand Theft Auto III: £2.03 / $3.39 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: £2.03 / $3.39 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: £3.39 / $5.09 Grand Theft Auto Classics collection (all of the above): £6.79 / $10.19
Grand Theft Auto IV: £6.79 / $6.79 Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City: £6.79 / $10.19 Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition (both of the above): £8.49 / $13.59
The ENTIRE GTA Collection: £4.99 / $12.49
...see what I mean about odd prices? If you're gonna go for it, go for the whole collection, it's an absolute bargain (especially if you're in the UK - a fiver for the whole lot? Criminal!).
I own GTA on PS1, GTA2 on Dreamcast, and GTA3 on PS2.
Personally, I could never stand to beat any of them but GTA1 once and way back when. I would always get bored, use the ammo cheat code and start obliterating police and various passersby with my rocket launcher until I got bored of doing that.
I think that the Assassin's Creed series sounds more appealing to me at this point.
Also a few conditions. If it's not a Myst game, it's not available on its own outside of this pack, and none of the Myst games are on offer outside of the pack.
If it's not a Myst game, it's not available on its own outside of this pack
Yes. But those exclusives are not really gamy. They are all exploreable worlds without any puzzles. And I never even heard of them before this pack was released on steam. They are nice to try but will not really give you a lot of playtime unless you really want to explore everything.
I don't hate Myst, but the fact it's a collection of still images is what turns me off. I played, and enjoyed, realMyst (a fully 3D version of the original game), so that is what turns me off. Now please don't kill me.
Today's Daily Deal is The First Templar, an actually fairly good third-person action game. £5 / $7.49
Two Midweek Madness titles this week. The first is incredibly appropriate - it's Back to the Future! £6.80 / $10, which, typically, is less then I paid for it here! Gah!
The other is GRID, a driving game I know nothing of. £2.99 / $3.74
I don't hate Myst, but the fact it's a collection of still images is what turns me off. I played, and enjoyed, realMyst (a fully 3D version of the original game), so that is what turns me off.
give the Myst 4 demo a try. it's still like still images but you can look around 360°.
Two Midweek Madness titles this week. The first is incredibly appropriate - it's Back to the Future! £6.80 / $10, which, typically, is less then I paid for it here! Gah!
A problem I have with buying a TTG game from Steam is that I consider each game (or season) to be one title, but Steam separates it out by chapter, meaning that every title has 4 or 5 entries each in Steam.
A problem I have with buying a TTG game from Steam is that I consider each game (or season) to be one title, but Steam separates it out by chapter, meaning that every title has 4 or 5 entries each in Steam.
So? At least it says it in the title. Sam & Max 101, Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 1, etc. It's slightly irritating, but no more so then seeing all the episodes displayed in Your Games page we have here.
A problem I have with buying a TTG game from Steam is that I consider each game (or season) to be one title, but Steam separates it out by chapter, meaning that every title has 4 or 5 entries each in Steam.
Yeah, but then I'll have skipped two games. I hate doing that, especially in story-driven games.
While that's an admirable attitude, I'll just say from my experience in playing the Myst games that you can probably play the sequels in any order. There are little nods to the other games, but plot-wise, Riven is a direct sequel to Myst, Myst 3 is a direct sequel to Myst, and Myst 4 is a direct sequel to Myst. There are a lot of details that you appreciate when you've played more than one of them, but you don't need to play them in chronological order to spot patterns and similarities, you know? The only one I'd avoid playing out of order is Myst 5, and that's just because the journals in that game recap (and therefore spoil) the plots of the previous games.
Swearing is a part of the common vernacular. You can't escape the use of swears any more than any common slang or common use of formerly grammatically incorrect forms. Language evolves and shit. If it didn't, we'd still have a gender-neutral pronoun.
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BS2 is worse than BS1 but still a high-quality and entertaining adventure game.
BS3 is different in gameplay and features QTE's in some action sequences, which I actually liked. It has a really compelling story and good humour. Only thing I didn't like about it is the annoying box-pushing puzzles.
In BS4 the George Stobbart-humour that plays so heavily into the first 3 games is practically non-existant. But by all means, get it if you like the rest of the series.
The beginning of BS2 is meh. (I hate the boy-catfight-over-Nico-scene) but after that there is still a solid adventure game. Get the second one at least.
There's actually a fan-game set in between BS2 and 3 called, funnily enough, Broken Sword 2.5. It's freely available on the net, so give it a go. I enjoyed it, and so might you.
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Today's Daily Deal is the Delta Force Platinum Pack, which is both Delta Force: Black Hawk Down and its expansion, Team Sabre. The pack is £5.43 / $6.79.
Individually Black Hawk Down is £3.73 / $5.09, and Team Sabre is £2.37 / $3.39.
That's actually great timing as I've just been looking into trying to buy it again recently due to my playing the director's cut of Broken Sword which made me want to play the original (and superior) version again which in turn has led to the desire to play though the whole series again but I've lost my Broken Sword 4 which I got when it first came out and now I can get it again at a reasonable price. Yay!
Also, though it wasn't the case when the deal went up, they are now BOTH HALF OFF INDIVIDUALLY. This is a far nicer deal if you just want to get one or the other without getting a weird package deal.
Anyway, you're right, they are both reduced on their own. Individually, they're both £4.99 / $9.99 (which, IIRC, is the price I paid for them when they were previously on sale, and is, if you're willing to do the math, a penny/cent cheaper than buying the pack!).
Also, the Weekend Deal is Alice: Madness Returns. Half price at £14.99 / $14.99, which is poor conversion at its finest, because if it WERE properly converted to a tenner, I'd probably have bought it.
Grand Theft Auto 1: N/A on its own
Grand Theft Auto 2: N/A on its own
Grand Theft Auto III: £2.03 / $3.39
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: £2.03 / $3.39
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: £3.39 / $5.09
Grand Theft Auto Classics collection (all of the above): £6.79 / $10.19
Grand Theft Auto IV: £6.79 / $6.79
Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City: £6.79 / $10.19
Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition (both of the above): £8.49 / $13.59
The ENTIRE GTA Collection: £4.99 / $12.49
...see what I mean about odd prices? If you're gonna go for it, go for the whole collection, it's an absolute bargain (especially if you're in the UK - a fiver for the whole lot? Criminal!).
Classic Collection = £6.79
GTAIV Collection = £8.49
GTA Complete Collection(Containing both of the above) = £4.99
How in the world does that work out?
It's annoying you don't get giftable copies when buying packs. I'd buy the complete colection for the ones I'm missing and then gift the duplicates.
Personally, I could never stand to beat any of them but GTA1 once and way back when. I would always get bored, use the ammo cheat code and start obliterating police and various passersby with my rocket launcher until I got bored of doing that.
I think that the Assassin's Creed series sounds more appealing to me at this point.
£5.09 / $6.79.
Not true. Technically you could buy the game and give us a comprehensive review to help us determine if the game is worth the 7 bucks.
EDIT:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEw0UgemwiY&feature=channel_video_title
And there you go.
(Its a Steam title by the way. So you can just buy and then activate the code...)
EDIT: I heard the game is pretty short, and not particularily great.
But I saw my friend playing it, and I actually think shooting some robits might be nice for a change.
I don't know much about it, beyond the fact that it is a game where you play tennis. The title does kinda give that away though.
66% off, $10,20.
But yeah, Virtua Tennis 4. £6.80 / $10.20, which is a pretty good deal if you're paying in pounds.
this includes:
Myst Masterpiece
realMyst
Riven
Uru Complete Chronicles
Manhole [*]
Spelunx [*]
Cosmic Osmo [*]
Definitely worth the pricetag. Everybody should own the classic adventuregames. Or at least realMyst & Riven.
*: games that are only available in this pack.
Also a few conditions. If it's not a Myst game, it's not available on its own outside of this pack, and none of the Myst games are on offer outside of the pack.
yes. I killed all the other ones that hate Myst. Where do you live again?
Today's Daily Deal is The First Templar, an actually fairly good third-person action game. £5 / $7.49
Two Midweek Madness titles this week. The first is incredibly appropriate - it's Back to the Future! £6.80 / $10, which, typically, is less then I paid for it here! Gah!
The other is GRID, a driving game I know nothing of. £2.99 / $3.74
give the Myst 4 demo a try. it's still like still images but you can look around 360°.
A problem I have with buying a TTG game from Steam is that I consider each game (or season) to be one title, but Steam separates it out by chapter, meaning that every title has 4 or 5 entries each in Steam.
We get it. You didn't like it. Thanks.
As it does in your TTG-account.
He has a valid point though.
While that's an admirable attitude, I'll just say from my experience in playing the Myst games that you can probably play the sequels in any order. There are little nods to the other games, but plot-wise, Riven is a direct sequel to Myst, Myst 3 is a direct sequel to Myst, and Myst 4 is a direct sequel to Myst. There are a lot of details that you appreciate when you've played more than one of them, but you don't need to play them in chronological order to spot patterns and similarities, you know? The only one I'd avoid playing out of order is Myst 5, and that's just because the journals in that game recap (and therefore spoil) the plots of the previous games.
...okay, bad example.