Chatty: Game prices, Quake II

In this week's edition, Chatty discusses game prices, Quake II, and...well...classic Chatty mega-threads.

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With so many summer sales underway, when is the last time you paid full retail price for a game? Was it worth the price of admission? FreshwaterAU prods the last full purchases Shackers have made from their cold, dead keyboards. The last game I paid full price was Diablo III, like so many other Shackers. Before that? Star Wars: The Old Republic, unfortunately. Whatever you paid for, more than likely you'll agree with pigvomit as time goes on.

Reminisce with eldersveld on his first playthrough of Quake II, even with screenshots. If you've never played it, do yourself a favor and pick the game up from any number of retail or digital storefronts. For those of you who have played the game, do you agree with rudds?

Ouya, the hacker-friendly Android console, quickly met its Kickstarter goal mere hours after its initial launch. Find out more in this thread with Masem as the project unfolded. What do you think? Can the project compete in a market filled with Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo consoles? Or will it go a long way to mitigating their corporate pressence as next-generation approaches? Many Shackers are doubtful, myself included.

Alpha Protocol, one of my favorite 2010 games, is bound to be on sale at some point and should be on your must-play list. Pick up the PC version? Pacalon recommends you make some .ini tweaks to improve the games somewhat lackadaisical controls. Do try them and give him some feedback!

NinjaGamerGirl re-installs EverQuest, which is now free-to-play, hoping to re-live some of her memories of the classic titles. Share some of your favorite memories with her and Shack. You know you want to!


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    July 14, 2012 12:00 PM

    Tyler J. Smith posted a new article, Chatty: Game prices, Quake II.

    In this week's edition, Chatty discusses game prices, Quake II, and...well...classic Chatty mega-threads.

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      July 14, 2012 12:15 PM

      "It's name?" should not have an apostrophe.

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      July 14, 2012 12:32 PM

      This is a cool feature! Nice job, Tyler!

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        July 14, 2012 4:35 PM

        Yeah, I like it too. Thanks for the Alpha Prot tweaks headsup!

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      July 14, 2012 1:15 PM

      For game pricing I'm hoping eventually game companies try to sell more games with more competitive prices then less games at high prices. With todays pricing scheme it seems like games like Uncharted 3, MotorStorm Appacalypse (which I bough on clearance at Target for $17) Mafia 2 (which was the final version with all the dlc for PS3 also Target clearance for only $5!) are left waiting on the retail shelf waiting to be reduced, and it seems like certain popular multiplayer games like COD keep moving no matter what the price is. I fear the end of single player story mode base game with this pricing scheme, as much as its good for me to get Clarenced games with in a short period of time, its not good for the publishers.

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      July 14, 2012 4:41 PM

      I hope that in the future, online MP games won't have ANY pay to win options. I don't appreciate the idea that some guy that bought a game on Steam can do things like pick up the flag from further away. It's minor, but still wrong IMO.

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