Summer Sales Report

Well, it's been a week since the Steam Sales started, and I assume we all know the standard operating procedure. Namely, stay on target, don't loosen up and no impulse buys over £3.

So far I'm doing well, Gaben has only managed to get about 4 quid off me in the form of unEpic and the steam port of FF7.

Despite coming recommended by a friend, unEpic doesn't really work for me, the controls feel responsive but rely on way too many shortcut combinations, and the whole thing from the characters to combat to the graphics lack anything remotely resembling charm.

I'd reveiw FF7 but that game is way too big a piece of my childhood games library for me to review it without nostalgia.

On the subject of the sales, it's somewhat telling to see Murdered: Soul Suspect ALREADY in a sale, not with the biggest of discounts true and the Summer Sale has been known to put big titles up with 33% discounts in the past. But here it feels more telling, as that game came out with next to no fanfare and I've yet to hear a single positive thing about it.

It was also interesting to see the PC version of Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends up for the price it SHOULD have launched with instead of the wildly optimistic price of 40 pounds it actually did so. I've always had a soft spot for the Dynasty Warriors franchise, and I liked how the character creator mode in 8 just abandoned all pretense of historical accuracy and had you fighting people with a Drill Lance or an Umbrella. But asking £40 for a console port is asking way too much.

I have a friend who picked up the port of Naruto on the first day.
Apparently Single Player mode quickly decides that it's going to be an Action-RPG. Multiplayer is a fairly nice looking arena combat game, with what could be a good game layered underneath a control scheme that was devised by the same people who made the scheme for Batman Forever on the Genesis/Megadrive.

Meanwhile the GoG sale continues to chug along, tossing out the occaisional free game to those who are quick enough to snap them up.