What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

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Re: What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

Post by Freshbite » Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:25 am

Glabbit wrote:Should have it within the week.
Wow. I applaud you.
Korban3 wrote:Wait, how did TimeShift get mediocre reviews? That looked like the bad-assenest game ever when it came out.
Impressive marketing.

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Re: What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

Post by Korban3 » Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:49 am

So, it really was a mediocre game?
*Goes to watch a Let's Play*
YOU LIED TO ME, YOU SUNNUVA BITCH!
That game isn't half bad looking at 240p. Seems pretty fun.

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Re: What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

Post by Freshbite » Tue Mar 13, 2012 12:27 am

I know, I thought the same thing. But apparently it has gotten mostly mediocre ratings from game-critics.

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Re: What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

Post by Glabbit » Tue Mar 13, 2012 4:31 am

Insofar as I could see, it had several reviews that proclaimed it was fantastic, and two or three that gave it below a 3 out of 10.
So yeah. iDunno.

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Re: What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

Post by Korban3 » Tue Mar 13, 2012 5:36 pm

Probably movie critics trying to boost their egos by reviewing games. Which they obviously don't understand. I applaud Time Shift for being bad ass. And denounce the review writers who said otherwise.
I mean, it's almost like saying Scatman John sucks because he has a sweet mustache or something. To be honest, I can't find ground to even joke about anything he did giving reason for him to suck.

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Re: What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

Post by Freshbite » Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:31 am

I guess Timeshift wasn't a "guilty pleasure" for me after all, with the critics apparently being wrong about it.

Speaking of which, http://cdon.se/spel/time_shift-518122
9 SEK corresponds to somewhat over 1 USD.

I ordered one...

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Re: What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

Post by Monkeyy » Tue Mar 20, 2012 9:04 am

I believe all games I play are AWESOME.

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Re: What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

Post by Korban3 » Tue Mar 20, 2012 5:56 pm

Wow, only about a dollar? That's awesome. I might have to pick that game up too.

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Re: What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

Post by adwuga » Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:06 pm

Everything else on that site is way overpriced. $60 for a ps3 controller? $80 for Mass Effect 3?

That is ridiculous.

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Re: What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

Post by Freshbite » Tue Mar 20, 2012 6:27 pm

Yeah, I wouldn't recommend you guys buying from there at all, with their warehouses being located in Sweden. Console games often weigh at about 80$ when they're just released. I think that's strongly overpriced. The same game but a PC Version will often drop about 40% in value when a console game has dropped 10%.


Two references where this sort of apply:
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Mass Effect 3 : PC, XBOX360, PS3.
Assassin's Creed - Revelations : PC, XBOX360, PS3.

I only buy from there for those lulzy bargains, like with the Timeshift game. And this. I bought that together with another ridiculously cheap game when I got a coupon for about ~7$, and the shipping was free. I had to pay 1 SEK, which is about 1/7 of a USD.

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Re: What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

Post by adwuga » Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:34 pm

That is awesome.

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Re: What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

Post by Korban3 » Wed Mar 21, 2012 4:27 pm

Lolwut? Splinter Cell Quadrilogy? That cheap? Man, that site sure does its best to knock both ends of the price range as far apart as they can.

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Re: What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

Post by Assaultman67 » Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:59 pm

Minesweeper ...

It's so casual, but i play it a lot.

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Re: What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

Post by Freshbite » Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:17 am

Korban3 wrote:Lolwut? Splinter Cell Quadrilogy? That cheap? Man, that site sure does its best to knock both ends of the price range as far apart as they can.
Yeah, that's why I keep coming back there. They have just as many ridiculously overpriced goods as they ridiculously underpriced ones. I love it.

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Re: What are your "guilty pleasure" games?

Post by Glabbit » Sat Mar 24, 2012 5:09 am

Minesweeper is awesome and challenging and really annoying when you get stuck in a 50%-chance-corner after clearing the whole field.

And I had a try at Timeshift - it's pretty sweet-lookin', and the story is really interesting. The annoyance is that the puzzles are simple and the combat unrelenting. It feels more like a standard shooter with some time elements to make dumb jocks exercise their brains a little more than usual than a puzzle-shooter.

Still good for brainless funzies though.

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