The Great Bargain Deals Discussion thread. - by David
sNeaksieGarrett on 18/9/2010 at 00:05
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
Yeah, sNeaksieGarrett, Vernon and I played Alien Swarm together for the first time. I have yet to go back to it, as I can never find anyone else to play with. Wish the game at least had SOME semblance of a single-player mode. Hell, make it like R6 where the squad is A.I. controlled, but allows you to switch to control any of the characters anytime on the fly in order to do class-specific actions.
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Even though the game has one offline map, there's a way to make it play all the maps.Put the following line into an autoexec.cfg file and stick it into your alien swarm\swarm\cfg folder:
Code:
asw_show_all_singleplayer_maps 1
gunsmoke on 18/9/2010 at 06:40
How glitchy is that Alien Swarm hack, sNeaksie?
Nameless Voice on 14/10/2010 at 22:48
Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack is going for €4.69 on Steam, at -86%. Are those things any good? I liked the original Secret of Monkey Island back in the day, but got rather turned off the series by the truly awful ending of the second game, and never played any of the later sequels.
gunsmoke on 15/10/2010 at 14:34
Oh, the Telltale Games Monkey Island series? Ugh, I didn't like it. Was flat and didn't have the charm of the original Lucas games.
inselaffe on 25/10/2010 at 23:42
Are the commandos games good / worth getting?
Nameless Voice on 25/10/2010 at 23:52
Definitely. Especially if they're as cheap as they were on Steam over the summer sale (I think I paid about €3.50 or less?)
They can get a little repetitive, perhaps, as they often consist of doing the same set of procedures repeatedly, to take out each of your enemies one at a time, but I still like them.
I think the first game and its expansion pack is the best, the second game complicates things a little too much, and the third game... well, I've only just started on it, but its interface is a huge step down from the first two. No hotkeys for anything for some reason (I found a mod to fix that), and you can't adjust the screen resolution.
Note that the Steam versions won't run out of the box, you need to do some manual file-tweaking to get them running. Check the sticky thread in the Steam forum.
Vernon on 25/10/2010 at 23:53
Quote Posted by inselaffe
Are the commandos games good / worth getting?
Seems a lot of people dig these games, but I stopped playing after a few levels (I only played Commandos 3). I really wanted to like it, but just found the missions tedious and lacking in depth. I guess it depends what you're looking for. Maybe a Commandos fan can convince us both otherwise
edit: beaten by Nameless
Nameless Voice on 26/10/2010 at 00:22
Well, I'm only on the second proper level of Commandos 3 so far, but... I'm not quite liking it as much as the other two.
One of the things that they did in Commandos 2 was add "stand and fight" missions, where you were given allied soldiers and had to defend against incoming waves of attacking enemies - a sharp contrast from the usual systematic and stealthy elimination that makes up the rest of the game. I didn't really like these sections much.
Commandos 3 starts with a mission where first you need to use your sniper to sneak around and kill an enemy sniper before he kills all the allied soldiers nearby - a rather annoying mission with a time limit so you can't really take your time and play the careful elimination game. It then expands the mission by having armies of enemies pouring at you, and you have to set up ambushes and use your men to defend and take them out. The whole mission was not exactly a good sign for the introduction to a sequel to the games that were meant to be all about stealth.
The second mission, however, seems much better, being back to the proper Commandos formula of being in hostile territory, surrounded by enemies, and having to slowly pick them off one at a time in order to clear a path to your target.
