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Few deals:
Drakensang Complete Pack is $10.18 at Gamers Gate in case you're looking for a new RPG
Bioshock Complete is also $10 in case you missed the first 15,000 sales on it.
Dark Messiah: Might & Magic is a mere $3.38. Activates on Steam.

Mafia II is $8.99 at GetGamesGo (Steam activated)
Civ IV Complete is $7.49
Civ III Complete is a mere $1.25 just in case you always wanted to play Civilization but never had more than a buck twenty-five in your pocket.

Cities XL 2011 is $4.98 at Green Man Gaming
The Next Big Thing is $7.48 in case you're the sort who enjoys the adventure/puzzle genre.

Dungeons & Dragons Ultimate Pack is $17.99 for today only. Includes Neverwinter Nights Complete, Neverwinter Nights 2 Complete, Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 with expansions, Icewind Dale 1 & 2 w/exp., Planescape: Torment and Temple of Elemental Evil.

The sale is good through the 6th.

I bought it when the 20% vouchers were still active and I had trade-in credit so I only spent 99¢ for it. I haven't played it yet though. From what little I read, 2012 changed little from it so I didn't bother posting that sale as its significantly more expensive.

"Professional" reviews on Metacritic range from positive to mixed but most of the criticisms are things that don't worry/affect me such as lack of multiplayer (which I don't want) or not adding enough from the 2009 version (which I don't own). The biggest general criticism seems to be not adding enough new to the genre but since I haven't played a city builder since SimCity 2000, I'm sure something new is in there if only a prettier city once I'm done

Then you should have gotten sim city 4 deluxe when it was on sale during the steam summer sale for 5 bucks....

Just yesterday (maybe the day before) i was saying that im actually in the mood to give this "skyrim" thing a try and then they put it on sale again to tempt me more.

Baldurs Gate and Neverwinter Nights are both great series if you havent played either. That might make it worth 18. Baldurs Gate is too old to be worth 18 alone.

Excluding ToEE, which had several major bugs and was a completely different game from the rest, NWN 2 is the worst in that collection. If you enjoy Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, you'll enjoy Icewind Dale 1 & 2. Torment was pretty good, and NWN strikes everyone differently. Some like the pull away from the Torment, BG, and IWD styles, others don't.

If you do play BG and IWD, you'll immediately know where Dragon Age came from. The play styles are pretty much identical.

Apparently all weekend? I see that's just today's deal on a special weekend, nvm. And Dawnguard was released for the PC (And I assume all non-Xbox platforms, Microsoft's hostage situation has been resolved)

Edited, Aug 2nd 2012 7:25pm by TirithRR

But if you don't own III, IV, V, or Dawnguard, you can get them all for 60 bucks.

Most reviews give it 8+ out of 10 from what I've seen. Forums are full of people demanding a 5 dollar DLC though, entitlement and all that.

I won't be downloading it right now, because I haven't touched Skyrim in quite some time (150+ hours in the first few weeks, then took a break). Buying it now it would sit unplayed until much later, so I'll just wait til I want to play it and by then it will likely be on a rotating sale schedule.

PC Gamer had an entry up today with GMG code PCGMR-ALLIN-GREEN for 25% off a game this week. Since it was posted today, I don't know if "this week" means from now until the 10th or just through the weekend or what. I also don't know if it's usable more than once per account.

Also, I had to get this code via the internet because I'm still waiting on Alla to send me my copy of PC Gamer

Edit: GMG has Borderlands 2 for 20% off right now. Assuming the code above works with it, that'd be $36 for Borderlands 2. I'm unwilling to experiment since, if it's a one-use code, I'd use it up checking on a game I'm not buying right now anyway.

Edited, Aug 3rd 2012 11:27am by Jophiel

Spellforce Complete Pack - $13.60
Dungeons: Gold edition - $7.49
Dungeon Siege III - $4.99
Last Remnant - $3.75

I heard a few people saying good things about Last Remnant when GMG recently had it on sale (this price is cheaper) although the JRPG/arcade looking style isn't really my thing.

Last Remnant was absolutely awful.

Plot was by far its weakest point. Important parts were rushed and everything else was drawn out. Every time something actually did happen, I felt like an exciting cut scene was missing. The characters were so boring, they made those of FFXII and FFXIII seem incredible.

The battle system is actually the most interesting part of the game. Instead of standard-fair FF combat, a special tactical system is used. Your teammates are actually small armies and you give very general orders (attack, heal, use magic) and can flank enemies, but you can't specify the specifics such as which spell to cast. On the xbox, this system caused significant lag, but I had no problems on the PC. The issue with the system though is that it's much more interesting when you have 4-5 "armies" on your side, but most of the game you're stuck with 2-3 fighting a group with 5-6 "armies", removing almost any real strategy.