Weekend Discussion: North America Holiday Edition

July 3, 2010 6:00 AM

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As much as I appreciate the fantastic sale prices on Steam, I'm not sure when I'm going to find the time to play any of the game's I've purchased. Thankfully, the July 4 long weekend is upon us, giving me more time to zone out and play the newest additions to my collection.

My first week as the Shacknews East Coast Editor complete (with, admittedly, a few speed bumps), I think I deserve some to play a few games ... and not just write about them. Speaking of sales, here are a few other deals happening this week to hurt your wallet and threaten your free time:

Good Old Games: 30% off Another world and Sanitarium until Monday
Impulse: 50% Company of Heroes: Complete (and a much more) on sale
Direct2Drive: Daily deals to celebrate the site's recent redesign
GamersGate: Celebrating America, with a few interesting offers

What are you playing this weekend?

Xav de Matos

Xav de Matos was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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roushimsx

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July 3, 2010 6:05 AM

ahh crap, just got WD'd

Just beat Red Faction Guerrilla; took me 12 hours and 45 minutes. Fucking awesome game.

Difficulty level was above average for the first half, but got a lot easier in the second half, I think. Probably because I got really good with the hammer / nano rifle / rocket launcher combo. Once I leveled up the nano rifle and expanded the ammo, shit got out of hand. Two upgrades to the hammer and it was a rape fest. Swapped out the rocket launcher for that nuke launching thing and the rest was a cakewalk.

Last mission wasn't that hard! I died the first time because I tried to rush it (I had a fucking tank!, how was I to know that it'd take that much damage from running over all of those vehicles :( ), but the second time I snuck along, blowing up everything one at a time and made it right up to the last boss, who went down easier than Lindsay Lohan on a coke dealer. Nuke to the door, nuke to the tank, one nano rifle shot, game over. Awesome contrast to the bullshit cheap last boss fight of Red Faction 2, which was a perfect finale for the shit game that it was.

SOOOOOOOOOO glad I gave the game a chance. It was fucking. awesome.
- Mad Brahmin Disease
  
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  July 3, 2010 6:07 AM
  
  Check out the Badlands DLC, it's not too shabby.
  - roushimsx
    
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    July 3, 2010 6:08 AM
    
    It's 800pts/$10 :(
    
    Debating attempting to play it on my PC, but the game runs a bit shit on my rig.
    - Mad Brahmin Disease
      
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      July 3, 2010 6:09 AM
      
      It has quite a few side missions... I would say it's one of the few instances where it's worth it.
      - roushimsx
        
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        July 3, 2010 6:18 AM
        
        I'll grab it next time I have some points. I just blew through like $70 in points during that last sale :(
    - TheWeaponeer
      
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      July 3, 2010 8:13 AM
      
      PC Version of RFG has ALL DLC On the DVD already. I do not know about the DD versions, but it should hold true for them as well.
- Fredrik S
  
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  July 3, 2010 6:08 AM
  
  Yeah. For fucking shit up, this game is really outstanding.
- MercFox1
  
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  July 3, 2010 6:16 AM
  
  Yep, Nano is my favorite. You can take down gunships in a couple shots with that thing.
  - roushimsx
    
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    July 3, 2010 6:17 AM
    
    Yea! I loved dissolving those fuckers as they hovered overhead. So awesome.
  - nephilem
    
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    July 3, 2010 8:29 AM
    
    I'm not sure if it's because the gunship had taken damage or if it really was a one shot kill, but a lot of the time, if I shot off one of the forward winglets on the gunships with the nano-rifle, it would cause the gunship to crash.
    - roushimsx
      
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      July 3, 2010 9:29 AM
      
      I'd do that sometimes, but normally my poorly aiming, controller using ass would have to use three shots to the main body of the vehicle to down it :(
      
      Single shotting it, watching the fin dissolve, and then seeing the aircraft slowly roll and crash was so. fucking. awesome.
      
      Fuck man, I loved Red Faction Guerrilla
- [deleted] 877988455
  
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  July 3, 2010 6:34 AM
  
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- Sexpansion Pack
  
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  July 3, 2010 6:41 AM
  
  Yeah it's my favorite game from that year.
- Beady
  
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  July 3, 2010 7:02 AM
  
  It really is a great game. Kinda slow early on, takes far too long to do much damage early on, and that mission with the towers/enemy car spam was annoying.
  
  But overall and later on its excellent.
- [deleted] 1167568288
  
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  July 3, 2010 7:03 AM
  
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  - X-GOUKI
    
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    July 3, 2010 8:26 AM
    
    its fun, but damn I got hit by the live update patch bug twice and therefore
    couldn't save.
- dantastic
  
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  July 3, 2010 7:24 AM
  
  it's really difficult at the start probably because you need to realize you have to use guerrilla tactics. hit and run before reinforcements show up.
- deveus1
  
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  July 3, 2010 8:55 AM
  
  I thought "nano rifle" said "nacho rifle". I think I might be a lot hungrier than i realized. Also, a nacho rifle sounds awesome
  - Fredrik S
    
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    July 3, 2010 9:15 AM
    
    Putting delicious death in the mouth of your enemies since 1845
- tometome
  
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  July 3, 2010 10:02 AM
  
  I finally got this game working last night. I had to disable dx10 but it mostly works. Then last night I tripped over my power cable and ripped it in 2.
  
  fuck.
- Veegeezee
  
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  July 3, 2010 10:05 AM
  
  this is in my tower of games i haven't even touched yet this year