Christmas Steam Sale!

For anyone that likes games like Transport Tycoon, I would highly recommend Transport Fever on Steam. Its just £16.19 at the moment.
 
humanlaptop said:
Im thinking Mafia 3 and season pass... the latter from Steam, the former is 7.99 on CDKEYS, so 20 quid all in.

Hopefully the poor reviews are pre-patches, so it would be a decent pickup. I love big open world games, so this is on those lines.
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I am playing Mafia 3 right now, for a second time (I wanted to replay with all DLCs). It is a great, flawed game, but I don't mind its specific flaws that much because the gameplay mechanics are so good (shooting, stealth, driving), fantastic atmosphere and period setting. Well written too. And the DLCs are a must, so far I played two and while quite short, they are storydriven and very good, no filler.
Mafia 1 is masterpiece, Mafia 2 was great, Mafia 3 is great also (although in different aspects).

aoaaron said:
Tempted to grab Witcher 3 GOTY on either GOG or steam

as I'm just finishing witcher 1 now.
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Buy it. On GOG if you want to support CDP.

XPE said:
Quantum Break £7.50 tempting, what's it like compared to other Remedy games?
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I bought it from Humble Monthly and it is great! Ran 60fps which is pleasant, playing it on TV with controller it looked great, shooting is fun (although it gets better as more stuff gets unlocked) but I thought the story was its greatest asset.
 
Paul_cz said:
I am playing Mafia 3 right now, for a second time (I wanted to replay with all DLCs). It is a great, flawed game, but I don't mind its specific flaws that much because the gameplay mechanics are so good (shooting, stealth, driving), fantastic atmosphere and period setting. Well written too. And the DLCs are a must, so far I played two and while quite short, they are storydriven and very good, no filler.
Mafia 1 is masterpiece, Mafia 2 was great, Mafia 3 is great also (although in different aspects).



Buy it. On GOG if you want to support CDP.



I bought it from Humble Monthly and it is great! Ran 60fps which is pleasant, playing it on TV with controller it looked great, shooting is fun (although it gets better as more stuff gets unlocked) but I thought the story was its greatest asset.
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Thanks mate!

Hmm given their press release a few days ago about not supporting HDR on PC, I think I'll give some money to valve.
 
Project cars 2 is excellent. I was hesitant to buy it at first as Assetto Corsa was uncontrollable and I’d given up ever getting it to work. Glad I did get it. So many cars, lots of great tracks and weather conditions are a lot of fun. Making me think about getting a steering wheel.
 
Same boat as you.

I got dirt rally in the sale and love it. Thinking of getting a wheel and project cars also.
I see a high Street shop has the Logitech g29 for £150 at the moment.

Is it worth it?
 
aoaaron said:
Thanks mate!

Hmm given their press release a few days ago about not supporting HDR on PC, I think I'll give some money to valve.
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There is no malicious intent, the HDR is a clustersuck on PC right now, pretty much nobody has HDR supported monitor and on software side there are issues as well.
They did say "at this moment", I think they will add it on PC when there are actual monitors being used by people that support HDR.
 
DiRT 4
Spintires: Mudrunner
The Sims 3
Sniper Elite 3

Just over £30 after Steam used some money that had been sat on my account for ages. All sorted for another year, no doubt I'll end up reverting to playing World of Tanks again before tomorrow.
 
Paul_cz said:
There is no malicious intent, the HDR is a clustersuck on PC right now, pretty much nobody has HDR supported monitor and on software side there are issues as well.
They did say "at this moment", I think they will add it on PC when there are actual monitors being used by people that support HDR.
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You think so? How is HDR a cluster **** compared to consoles + TVs? HDR is pretty much a mess everywhere but support is still there for those willing to implement it.

Surely they just for now port whatever HDR support is in place for the XBOX one X and assume people are using TVs until HDR monitors become more mainstream.
 
Bought and refunded Nex Machina. Want to like it because I love Resogun on the PS4, but Nex didn't, er, resonate in the same way.
Bought and kept IL2 Battle of Stalingrad. Resent spending £20 on yet another version of IL2, but VR dogfighting is superb.
Also cracked and bought Cossacks 3. It's little more than a facelift for the RTS Cossacks 1, and I probably won't get my money's worth in hours played, but it's Christmas and foolish nostalgia is the order of the day.
 
aoaaron said:
Still not convinced as to the HDR market being a mess for why we don't get it on Witcher 3. Why have other titles such as the ones listed in that article pulling off full HDR support on PC?

HDR on TVs is a mess too. Why aren't red holding back on that until there is a definitive set standard?
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On console its far easier from a developers point of view & TV's have their standards for HDR, however its a bit too flexible. With consoles you know exactly the GPU HDR capability bit depth Range etc & can adapt to support the TV used.

with PC you need to support all forms of Graphics & try to adjust the to allow the monitor to display correctly. THen you have windows HDR issues in general

THis is from someone who games on HDR TV with my PC.

if this was on MAC it would just work. but windows has not added "just works" support just yet...
 
smogsy said:
On console its far easier from a developers point of view & TV's have their standards for HDR, however its a bit too flexible. With consoles you know exactly the GPU HDR capability bit depth Range etc & can adapt to support the TV used.

with PC you need to support all forms of Graphics & try to adjust the to allow the monitor to display correctly. THen you have windows HDR issues in general

THis is from someone who games on HDR TV with my PC.

if this was on MAC it would just work. but windows has not added "just works" support just yet...
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Is it that hard really? I believe the 10 series and 9 series cards work HDR.. so do it for them? Is there some magical step that Assasins Creed origins and Mass Effect Andromeda are somehow immune to but CDproject red aren't?

I just feel like its a totally F for effort from them. Maybe you're right but I'm not convinced in all honesty. I'd rather have the trial of some form of optional HDR support than just saying they're not doing it.

I'm not very experienced sadly with HDR in windows yet tho.. maybe it is that difficult and buggy... or maybe..


I think if PC users dont make a stand now and ensure developers put effort into the complexities of PC in regards to HDR, we might not have HDR for a very very long time and will see patchy support just like there has been until recently for 21:9. I don't think its right, espepecially for a franchise such as the Witcher where PC people have been so so so loyal to them.
 
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