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Both are solid games. Darkness II has some nice art direction and some great voice acting and characters. Fun game play as well if you make a point of mixing it up: Don't just shoot people, whip some car doors at them or tear them in two.

SpecOps has pretty standard game play but the story is worth it. I don't know if it's as AMAZING as some make it out to be but it's definitely worth the experience.

Both are pretty short games. About 8-10 hours each, I believe. But for two bucks a pop, it's hard to complain.

Well, PS3 Diablo III sure looks to be shaping up to be much better than PC D3.

Yeah, I was reading about that. Seen some Console vs. PC warriors crowing about it but I don't know what it proves beyond "With a year's worth of feedback, you can make a better game next time around".

I thought all the cool kids played Torchlight anyway.

I ain't sayin', I'm just sayin'...

I can't justify paying full price for anything so there ya go.

Diablo 3.

Ah. I recently booted it up again for a bit. The only things they're really missing is structured PvP (if you're into that kind of thing), and an endless dungeon type of mode (which was never promised, but would greatly improve the game IMO). Anyway, if you were ever interested in it, I'd suggest holding out for the PS3 release. Many of the improvements they're making in it are not coming to the PC version. It might have been rather incomplete at launch, but in its current state I would consider it to be pretty complete (again, aside from the lack of PvP).

Oh, also, the PS3 version won't require you to always be online, and won't have an AH (though it will support a menu-driven trading system so you can trade with other players in your game, etc.). This also allows them to boost the item generation so you'll find more items that will be useful. Which is cool, because basically the biggest problem I ran into with D3 was that you weren't grinding in the hopes of finding an upgrade for yourself, you were grinding to find things to generate money so you could buy better gear on the AH. And item generation was obviously heavily influenced by the presence of an AH.

It's sad. I think I completely overhauled my level 60 characters' gearsets, replacing every piece. I was getting significant upgrades, mostly in the form of Legendaries, for 30-50k gold an item. When I checked out the RMAH, 1M gold was selling for $0.26. I guess I can still find some enjoyment on my HC characters, since there was no RMAH for HC, but the AH there is pretty well flooded at this stage, too. I would still like to clear Inferno on a HC character, though I don't think I'll try to get gear to clear MP10 Inferno, or grind to Paragon level 100.

Today's Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day is online codes for Borderlands 2 and the Season Pass. The game is $20, the season pass is $10, and both together is $25.

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Edited, Apr 5th 2013 9:24am by Shaowstrike

I was going to post that but figured if these punks didn't want it for $11...

Guess I have an excuse to finish the game now, grabbed the season pass (already own the game) Plus grabbing Defiance later... ya BL2 will be there next year... still...

Free Tomb Raider with purchase of a AMD Graphics Card.