Video games...what ya playing? And what are you looking forward to? (26 Viewers)

[Tony Jabroni]

If the developers and console makers want to kill the used game industry, it's simple. Make all games available for download at $40 vs $60 for a disc. The problem will take care of itself.

I ain't payin no 50 cents for no coke.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Great Cartman outfit. Edit: That guy's terribly annoying. He should have gone down with his sail barge.

 

[EYLive]

Watch Dogs looks incredible. I'm not sure if I want to get it for PS3 or PS4.

 

[NewlyRetired]

Which guy? The character Francis or the gentleman who portrays him in the videos? If you have not seen his normal persona, he is very well spoken and intelligent. Francis is pretty much his alter ego I think

 

[Insein]

BioShock Infinite Season Pass includes three DLC packs

Irrational Games announced a Season Pass for BioShock Infinite this morning, granting buyers access to three "all-new" upcoming DLC packs. We've spoken to the boys and girls in our labs, and they tell us that means there are at least three pieces of BioShock Infinite DLC on the way.

The pass is priced $19.99 on PS3 and PC, or 1600 MSP on Xbox 360, and Irrational says it provides $10 worth of savings. So the three DLC packs come in at an average of $10 each, or 800 MSP.

A Season Pass purchase also pecks picks you up the Early Bird Special Pack, this giving you a machine gun damage upgrade, pistol damage upgrade, gold skin for both weapons, five Infusion bottles, and four pieces of gear, all for free.

Cutting content from the game and selling it separately as DLC:

Today, Irrational Games have confirmed that upcoming Bioshock Infinite will receive a Season Pass.

Bioshock Infinite will receive three all-new add-on packs for the price of two. There will also be an Early Bird Special Pack full of exclusive gameplay enhancing bonuses.

This shouldn’t be a massive surprise as Ken Levine recently stated that several hours of content needed to be cut from the game. It’s very likely that much of that cutting-room floor content is going to be sold seperately and offer additional side-stories into the Infinite world.

The Season Pass will be available March 26th and will provide nearly £24 of content for £15.99 on Playstation 3 or Windows PC or 1,600 MSP for Xbox Live.

The Early Bird Special Pack comes at no additional cost for those who purchase the Season Pass and it includes four pieces of exclusive gear. A Machine Gun Damage Upgrade, a Pistol Damage Upgrade, a Gold Skin for both weapons and five Infusion bottles to increase health, shield durability or ability to use Vigors. Those who purchase the Season Pass will also receive the Industrial Revolution Pack for free.

My link

Feels like Mass Effect 3 all over again.

 

[Insein]

This shouldn’t be a massive surprise as Ken Levine recently stated that several hours of content needed to be cut from the game. It’s very likely that much of that cutting-room floor content is going to be sold seperately and offer additional side-stories into the Infinite world.

I guess for me it's kind of hard to get bent out of shape with this becuse there's no standard size to a game. How do we know what $60 of content is?I'm wondering why the content "needed" to be cut from the game. If it's just for profit then, yes, that's bogus.

But if I'm getting $60 worth of game from the initial release and the additional DLC is just that - additional - then I don't have a problem paying more for more content.

I will say that the "From Ashes" content being a DLC for ME3 was a horribly obvious money grab.

First thing I thought of when I read this.

 

[Mad Cow]

I am surprised we haven't seen more of you all in our Path of Exile thread. Hard to beat a well-done FREE action RPG.

 

[GTBilly]

I am surprised we haven't seen more of you all in our Path of Exile thread. Hard to beat a well-done FREE action RPG.

Path of Exile is accused of grabbing sensitive data off your PC.

 

[Mad Cow]

I am surprised we haven't seen more of you all in our Path of Exile thread. Hard to beat a well-done FREE action RPG.

Path of Exile is accused of grabbing sensitive data off your PC.

From my understanding, it is one of the prominent forums for the game that did this, not the game itself. That is what was reported anyway.

 

[NewlyRetired]

I am surprised we haven't seen more of you all in our Path of Exile thread. Hard to beat a well-done FREE action RPG.

Path of Exile is accused of grabbing sensitive data off your PC.

From my understanding, it is one of the prominent forums for the game that did this, not the game itself. That is what was reported anyway.

Yeah, what happened in POE happens in pretty much every online game.

 

[GTBilly]

I must be a FBG. I make up stuff in a thread that I actually participate in and in ends up having a bone of truth to it. I was just coming back in here to post that I was just being a donkey and low and behold...

 

[shadyridr]

Just finished Far Cry 3. Simply an amazing game and perhaps one of the best experiences Ive had on the PS3. Gets my vote for GOTY.

 

[Mad Cow]

I must be a FBG. I make up stuff in a thread that I actually participate in and in ends up having a bone of truth to it. I was just coming back in here to post that I was just being a donkey and low and behold...

Apparently one of the unofficial forums had info hacked. Nothing sensitive but there nonetheless. People were discussing it online today, which is the only reason I know about it.

 

[NewlyRetired]

I must be a FBG. I make up stuff in a thread that I actually participate in and in ends up having a bone of truth to it. I was just coming back in here to post that I was just being a donkey and low and behold...

Apparently one of the unofficial forums had info hacked. Nothing sensitive but there nonetheless. People were discussing it online today, which is the only reason I know about it.

Yeah. Nothing near as bad as when the PS3 accounts got hacked and people lost credit card information. That was nasty.

 

[NewlyRetired]

www.1up.com and www.gamespy.com sadly closed down today by ign, lots of people laid off. :(1up was around for almost ten years and gamespy had a 14 year run.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

www.1up.com and www.gamespy.com sadly closed down today by ign, lots of people laid off. :(1up was around for almost ten years and gamespy had a 14 year run.

Thanks Posty

 

[jwb]

www.1up.com and www.gamespy.com sadly closed down today by ign, lots of people laid off. :(1up was around for almost ten years and gamespy had a 14 year run.

Sad. I definitely remember when Gamespy started.

 

[Insein]

www.1up.com and www.gamespy.com sadly closed down today by ign, lots of people laid off. :(1up was around for almost ten years and gamespy had a 14 year run.

1up is finally over. Man. EGM was one of my favorite magazines. When they stopped printing and went to digital, I stopped following them. 1up wasn't that special to me compared to any other site out there. I loved reading Sean Baby's rest of the crap about the worst games ever made. Sad day indeed.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

If you preorder Bioshock: Infinite from MSFT, they'll give you 1600 points. - Link

Then the DLC won't cost you anything.

Other games with the same deal. - GTA5, Army of Two, Tomb Raider, South Park, Tiger Woods '14, Lost Planet 3, GOW: Judgement

 

[Insein]

If you preorder Bioshock: Infinite from MSFT, they'll give you 1600 points. - LinkThen the DLC won't cost you anything.Other games with the same deal. - GTA5, Army of Two, Tomb Raider, South Park, Tiger Woods '14, Lost Planet 3, GOW: Judgement

Still annoying that they'll give you 1600 free points to pre order so you can buy the DLC they cut out of the game. So essentially you're buying a full game but fulfilling their preorder quotas. People who don't preorder will have to pay $80 for a full game or wait till it comes down in price or just play most of a game. I just don't like this selling DLC day one trend.

 

[Frank Drebin]

This shouldn’t be a massive surprise as Ken Levine recently stated that several hours of content needed to be cut from the game. It’s very likely that much of that cutting-room floor content is going to be sold seperately and offer additional side-stories into the Infinite world.

I guess for me it's kind of hard to get bent out of shape with this becuse there's no standard size to a game. How do we know what $60 of content is?I'm wondering why the content "needed" to be cut from the game. If it's just for profit then, yes, that's bogus.

But if I'm getting $60 worth of game from the initial release and the additional DLC is just that - additional - then I don't have a problem paying more for more content.

I will say that the "From Ashes" content being a DLC for ME3 was a horribly obvious money grab.

The ME3 thing is exactly what I thought of when I read that article. As far as I know, there's no technical reason why content "needs" to be cut from a game. Blu-rays hold a ton of storage space -- way more than a traditional single player game needs -- and Xbox players are used to dealing with multi-disc games. The only reason why you "need" to cut out content is to make more money on DLC.

Call me cynical, but when the game hasn't even dropped yet and they're already talking about DLC plans based on stuff that they cut from the main game, I'm assuming "money grab" until proven otherwise.

The article inferred that, but that isn't what Levine said. He said they had to cut stuff from the game, nothing more. The writer is making the assumption that the cut material is going to be the DLC.

 

[Insein]

This shouldn’t be a massive surprise as Ken Levine recently stated that several hours of content needed to be cut from the game. It’s very likely that much of that cutting-room floor content is going to be sold seperately and offer additional side-stories into the Infinite world.

I guess for me it's kind of hard to get bent out of shape with this becuse there's no standard size to a game. How do we know what $60 of content is?I'm wondering why the content "needed" to be cut from the game. If it's just for profit then, yes, that's bogus.

But if I'm getting $60 worth of game from the initial release and the additional DLC is just that - additional - then I don't have a problem paying more for more content.

I will say that the "From Ashes" content being a DLC for ME3 was a horribly obvious money grab.

The ME3 thing is exactly what I thought of when I read that article. As far as I know, there's no technical reason why content "needs" to be cut from a game. Blu-rays hold a ton of storage space -- way more than a traditional single player game needs -- and Xbox players are used to dealing with multi-disc games. The only reason why you "need" to cut out content is to make more money on DLC.

Call me cynical, but when the game hasn't even dropped yet and they're already talking about DLC plans based on stuff that they cut from the main game, I'm assuming "money grab" until proven otherwise.

The article inferred that, but that isn't what Levine said. He said they had to cut stuff from the game, nothing more. The writer is making the assumption that the cut material is going to be the DLC.

If the DLC is released day one, then it was the cut stuff.

 

[Dondante]

Soo...I'm going to go ahead and pick up a PS3. Is the uncharted $270 bundle from Target a half-way decent deal?

 

[Insein]

Soo...I'm going to go ahead and pick up a PS3. Is the uncharted $270 bundle from Target a half-way decent deal?

Considering that they sold it for $199 with Uncharted 1&2 and Infamous 1&2 at Christmas, no it really isn't.

 

[East Coast Bias]

Soo...I'm going to go ahead and pick up a PS3. Is the uncharted $270 bundle from Target a half-way decent deal?

Considering that they sold it for $199 with Uncharted 1&2 and Infamous 1&2 at Christmas, no it really isn't.

Walmart has it for $230 right now. I think it is the best deal at this time. My link

 

[Insein]

Soo...I'm going to go ahead and pick up a PS3. Is the uncharted $270 bundle from Target a half-way decent deal?

Considering that they sold it for $199 with Uncharted 1&2 and Infamous 1&2 at Christmas, no it really isn't.

Walmart has it for $230 right now. I think it is the best deal at this time. My link

That's worth it. That uncharted 3 pack at Target is not. Dondante, get this one from Walmart and then buy UC3 off of Amazon for like $20-30.

 

[Premier]

So apparently there is a new Batman Arkham game this year...but not made by rocksteady. :(

 

[Hawks64]

So apparently there is a new Batman Arkham game this year...but not made by rocksteady. :(

Link? I just did a quick check and I can't find anything but Rocksteady's sequel coming out later this year for the new consoles.

 

[Premier]

So apparently there is a new Batman Arkham game this year...but not made by rocksteady. :(

Link? I just did a quick check and I can't find anything but Rocksteady's sequel coming out later this year for the new consoles.

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/295006/scitech/gaming/new-batman-arkham-game-confirmed-for-a-2013-release

 

[Dondante]

Soo...I'm going to go ahead and pick up a PS3. Is the uncharted $270 bundle from Target a half-way decent deal?

Considering that they sold it for $199 with Uncharted 1&2 and Infamous 1&2 at Christmas, no it really isn't.

Walmart has it for $230 right now. I think it is the best deal at this time. My link

That's worth it. That uncharted 3 pack at Target is not. Dondante, get this one from Walmart and then buy UC3 off of Amazon for like $20-30.

Nice! Much appreciated.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Newegg has PS3 500gb bundle with AC3 for $230.

 

[5Rings]

If you preorder Bioshock: Infinite from MSFT, they'll give you 1600 points. - LinkThen the DLC won't cost you anything.Other games with the same deal. - GTA5, Army of Two, Tomb Raider, South Park, Tiger Woods '14, Lost Planet 3, GOW: Judgement

Any special pre-order deals for PS3?

 

[Insein]

Newegg has PS3 500gb bundle with AC3 for $230.

Damn, now I regret my purchase.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Newegg has PS3 500gb bundle with AC3 for $230.

I just got to the Native American character in AC3 and I am ready to just go sell this game. I don't like it really. I play the games within the game more than the mission and I don't get this simulation crap.

 

[The Hank]

Newegg has PS3 500gb bundle with AC3 for $230.

I just got to the Native American character in AC3 and I am ready to just go sell this game. I don't like it really. I play the games within the game more than the mission and I don't get this simulation crap.

Did you ever play ACI or ACII?

 

[Insein]

Newegg has PS3 500gb bundle with AC3 for $230.

I just got to the Native American character in AC3 and I am ready to just go sell this game. I don't like it really. I play the games within the game more than the mission and I don't get this simulation crap.

Did you ever play ACI or ACII?

Yea, that's kind of the whole thing with AC. It's all a simulation. I guess you can take it that way though.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Newegg has PS3 500gb bundle with AC3 for $230.

I just got to the Native American character in AC3 and I am ready to just go sell this game. I don't like it really. I play the games within the game more than the mission and I don't get this simulation crap.

Did you ever play ACI or ACII?

No. I thought it was just a bunch of assassin #### in different eras and I wanted to check out the revolutionary one. That's not my main gripe though. It's just boring up to now. They jump "5 years later" etc quick without notice. I wasn't sure if I could explore anything or do side missions or if I missed stuff. Just not good IMO so far. The best part to me has been the gambling games

 

[fasteddie_21]

Newegg has PS3 500gb bundle with AC3 for $230.

I just got to the Native American character in AC3 and I am ready to just go sell this game. I don't like it really. I play the games within the game more than the mission and I don't get this simulation crap.

Did you ever play ACI or ACII?

No. I thought it was just a bunch of assassin #### in different eras and I wanted to check out the revolutionary one. That's not my main gripe though. It's just boring up to now. They jump "5 years later" etc quick without notice. I wasn't sure if I could explore anything or do side missions or if I missed stuff. Just not good IMO so far. The best part to me has been the gambling games

Keep in mind that every reputable site out there has said that AC3 was probably the biggest disappointment of 2012. Take that fwiw.

 

[thecatch]

Newegg has PS3 500gb bundle with AC3 for $230.

I just got to the Native American character in AC3 and I am ready to just go sell this game. I don't like it really. I play the games within the game more than the mission and I don't get this simulation crap.

Did you ever play ACI or ACII?

No. I thought it was just a bunch of assassin #### in different eras and I wanted to check out the revolutionary one. That's not my main gripe though. It's just boring up to now. They jump "5 years later" etc quick without notice. I wasn't sure if I could explore anything or do side missions or if I missed stuff. Just not good IMO so far. The best part to me has been the gambling games

Keep in mind that every reputable site out there has said that AC3 was probably the biggest disappointment of 2012. Take that fwiw.

I enjoyed AC3, but (a) it starts very slow (although Haythem is an interesting character), (b) Connor is not a charismatic protagonist, and © I can't imagine playing it after not playing any of its predecessors. The story was complicated to begin with, and it is certainly starting to spiral out of the writers' control by this point. It is not an easy point to pick up the series.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Xbox live sale:•Dirt 2 - $4.99 •Grid - $4.99 •Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements - $2.99 • Rayman Raving Rabbids - $2.99 •Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X - $4.99 •Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas - $4.99 •Kane and Lynch: Dead Men - $4.99 •Call of Juarez - $4.99 •Tomb Raider: Legend - $4.99 •Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter - $4.99 •Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 - $4.99 •Virtua Fighter 5 - $4.99 •BioShock - $4.99 •El Shaddai - $2.99 •The Darkness - $4.99

 

[Andy Dufresne]

If you preorder Bioshock: Infinite from MSFT, they'll give you 1600 points. - LinkThen the DLC won't cost you anything.Other games with the same deal. - GTA5, Army of Two, Tomb Raider, South Park, Tiger Woods '14, Lost Planet 3, GOW: Judgement

Any special pre-order deals for PS3?

The only thing I've seen is some in-game bonuses.

 

[5Rings]

If you preorder Bioshock: Infinite from MSFT, they'll give you 1600 points. - LinkThen the DLC won't cost you anything.Other games with the same deal. - GTA5, Army of Two, Tomb Raider, South Park, Tiger Woods '14, Lost Planet 3, GOW: Judgement

Any special pre-order deals for PS3?

The only thing I've seen is some in-game bonuses.

Thanks Andy. Looking forward to the next trailer

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Naughty Dog makes Uncharted 3 multiplayer free-to-play, available today on the PSN.

I thought I heard that U3 was actually a really good multiplayer.

 

[The Ref]

Newegg has PS3 500gb bundle with AC3 for $230.

I just got to the Native American character in AC3 and I am ready to just go sell this game. I don't like it really. I play the games within the game more than the mission and I don't get this simulation crap.

Did you ever play ACI or ACII?

No. I thought it was just a bunch of assassin #### in different eras and I wanted to check out the revolutionary one. That's not my main gripe though. It's just boring up to now. They jump "5 years later" etc quick without notice. I wasn't sure if I could explore anything or do side missions or if I missed stuff. Just not good IMO so far. The best part to me has been the gambling games

Keep in mind that every reputable site out there has said that AC3 was probably the biggest disappointment of 2012. Take that fwiw.

I enjoyed AC3, but (a) it starts very slow (although Haythem is an interesting character), (b) Connor is not a charismatic protagonist, and © I can't imagine playing it after not playing any of its predecessors. The story was complicated to begin with, and it is certainly starting to spiral out of the writers' control by this point. It is not an easy point to pick up the series.

I'm a big AC fan. Played all of them and completed all of the little side quests.I'm about 7 hours into AC3 and I haven't turned it on for a month. It's just not a very good game.

 

[Usual21]

Xbox live sale:

•Dirt 2 - $4.99

•Grid - $4.99

•Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements - $2.99

• Rayman Raving Rabbids - $2.99

•Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X - $4.99

•Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas - $4.99

•Kane and Lynch: Dead Men - $4.99

•Call of Juarez - $4.99

•Tomb Raider: Legend - $4.99

•Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter - $4.99

•Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 - $4.99

•Virtua Fighter 5 - $4.99

•BioShock - $4.99

•El Shaddai - $2.99

•The Darkness - $4.99

There is NO reason now for anyone to not have this game.

 

[Insein]

Xbox live sale:

•Dirt 2 - $4.99

•Grid - $4.99

•Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements - $2.99

• Rayman Raving Rabbids - $2.99

•Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X - $4.99

•Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas - $4.99

•Kane and Lynch: Dead Men - $4.99

•Call of Juarez - $4.99

•Tomb Raider: Legend - $4.99

•Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter - $4.99

•Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 - $4.99

•Virtua Fighter 5 - $4.99

•BioShock - $4.99

•El Shaddai - $2.99

•The Darkness - $4.99

There is NO reason now for anyone to not have this game.

Unless of course they only have $4.98.

 

[The Hank]

Xbox live sale:

•Dirt 2 - $4.99

•Grid - $4.99

•Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements - $2.99

• Rayman Raving Rabbids - $2.99

•Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X - $4.99

•Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas - $4.99

•Kane and Lynch: Dead Men - $4.99

•Call of Juarez - $4.99

•Tomb Raider: Legend - $4.99

•Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter - $4.99

•Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 - $4.99

•Virtua Fighter 5 - $4.99

•BioShock - $4.99

•El Shaddai - $2.99

•The Darkness - $4.99

There is NO reason now for anyone to not have this game.

Unless of course they only have $4.98.

Going to download tonight -- cant pass that up

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Xbox live sale:

•BioShock - $4.99

There is NO reason now for anyone to not have this game.

Unless of course they only have $4.98.

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Naughty Dog makes Uncharted 3 multiplayer free-to-play, available today on the PSN.I thought I heard that U3 was actually a really good multiplayer.

I liked it. It wasn't as good as a Battlefield or Killzone, but it was infinitely better than a lot of the tacked-on multiplayer that comes with most games. In other words, U3 multiplayer was the sort of thing that you could actually see somebody playing for an extended period of time, and it added a few weeks onto the overall playtime of the game.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Xbox live sale:

•Dirt 2 - $4.99

•Grid - $4.99

•Dark Messiah of Might and Magic: Elements - $2.99

• Rayman Raving Rabbids - $2.99

•Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X - $4.99

•Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas - $4.99

•Kane and Lynch: Dead Men - $4.99

•Call of Juarez - $4.99

•Tomb Raider: Legend - $4.99

•Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter - $4.99

•Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 - $4.99

•Virtua Fighter 5 - $4.99

•BioShock - $4.99

•El Shaddai - $2.99

•The Darkness - $4.99

Really? I rented this and it was pretty good. I prefer the balance of WWII weapons but I liked this game.