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Weekend PC digital deals: Skyrim for $40

Digital PC game bargains this weekend include Skyrim for $40.19, everything Deus Ex for $17.49, Battlefield 3 for $29.99, Star Wars: The Old Republic for $39.99, Jagged Alliance: Back in Action for $23.49, and heaps more.
Alice O'Connor
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Oh, how time flies! Friday is here already, and there are bags of sales at digital distributors to help you celebrate. PC game bargains this weekend include Skyrim for $40.19, everything Deus Ex for $17.49, Battlefield 3 for $29.99, Star Wars: The Old Republic for $39.99, Jagged Alliance: Back in Action for $23.49, and heaps more. Here's our selection of this weekend's PC deals:

Amazon

Battlefield 3

GameFly

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning

GamersGate

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Get Games

Arcania: Gothic 4

GOG

GOG's offering 50% off a selection of games published by Nordic Games, including these:

Gothic 3

Humble Bundle

Pay what you want for a bundle of Botanicula, Machinarium and Samorost 2. Pay above the average price to also get Windosill and the movie Kooky.

Botanicula

Impulse

Alan Wake

Indie Royale

Pay what you want for a bundle of Unstoppable Gorg, Depths of Peril, Tobe's Vertical Adventure, Inferno+, Slydris and Ballistic.

Unstoppable Gorg

Origin

Star Wars: The Old Republic

Steam

Jagged Alliance: Back in Action

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  • Shacknews legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    April 20, 2012 2:00 PM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Weekend PC digital deals: Skyrim for $40.

    Digital PC game bargains this weekend include Skyrim for $40.19, everything Deus Ex for $17.49, Battlefield 3 for $29.99, Star Wars: The Old Republic for $39.99, Jagged Alliance: Back in Action for $23.49, and heaps more.

    • razorblade79 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      April 20, 2012 2:19 PM

      how does a steamworks game from impulse work? do I just buy a key I can input into steam?

      • Schnapple legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        April 20, 2012 3:26 PM

        I haven't done it before but yeah, that's basically how it works.

        My guess is that the Impulse client is not even involved, Impulse/GameStop just gets the money

    • SlingBlaze legacy 10 years
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      April 20, 2012 2:27 PM

      30% off $50 is not $25 its $35
      -> GamersGate Anno

    • [deleted] 1710678874 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      April 20, 2012 2:28 PM

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      • azuvatar legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        April 20, 2012 3:08 PM

        I'd love that there was a Skyrim mod that sort of emulated the analog combat in Dead Island, or is there already one that does it?

      • pyide legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        April 20, 2012 3:15 PM

        It's slightly better but not that much different. Still a great game if you like exploring impressive open worlds.

        • LoioshDwaggie legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          April 20, 2012 3:26 PM

          It's significantly improved over Oblivion, but still not anywhere near as good as a proper action game, like Amalor.

    • Schnapple legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      April 20, 2012 3:27 PM

      Daikatana - really?

      • [deleted] 1060433626 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        April 20, 2012 3:28 PM

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        • dookiebot legacy 10 years
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          April 20, 2012 6:55 PM

          better late than never! I may actually buy it too... hmmmm

        • rms legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury super mega
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          April 21, 2012 7:34 AM

          Me too! Free as well, if you use the 'blue coins'

      • josexnc legacy 10 years
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        April 20, 2012 3:31 PM

        gf's bday today, she is getting daikatana now.

        • Schnapple legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          April 20, 2012 4:20 PM

          In the wake of Anachronox on GOG I decided to reinstall Daikatana to remember what it was like. I bought it on day one (it was knocked down to $30 before it even hit the shelf at Babbage's). I had some issues getting it working. I had to resort to installing it in an XP virtual machine and copying over the files because the installer would not goddamn work no matter what I did. I think there was something involved in getting it to run as well, like 98 compatibility mode or something.

          Anyway once I got it running - oh wow, it's hard to think this game came out two years after Half-Life and wanted to be taken seriously.

          The suck hits you early on when the loading screen decides that every little "notch" on the progress bar is going to make a tick noise. And near as I can tell it's designed such that it's going to take a minimum amount of time to do the animation of the bar so even though I have a quad core system that can load a Half-Life level in half a second, I'm going to be forced to listen to

          TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK.....

          Every single time I start the game. And every single time the level has to load some more. It's like when Half-Life pauses and you see "LOADING..." except you get to listen to the TICK-TICK-TICK.... again. And it's way less tolerant of level transition points so if an enemy knocks you back a few feet right after you loaded the new part of the level TICK-TICK-TICK.... and when you go forward again TICK-TICK-TICK....

          The opening cutscene (with no lip-synching animations since, you know, Quake 2 engine) was like 15 minutes or some shit. The problem with the robot frogs and mosquitoes is not that they exist or that they're lame, it's that they're hard as fuck to hit, they cause a lot of damage, and there's not a lot of health powerups.

          And it's obvious this game fucking hates you. The mosquitoes can fuck your shit up. There's turrets that, near as I can tell you can't avoid, you just need to have enough health to get past them. And if you don't... well that just sucks then. A force field in front of a door kills you instantly. And in the original, non-patched version you had to use "save gems" to save your game. I've never understood why anyone has ever thought this was a good idea. It's almost tolerable in Resident Evil games since those are console titles and they're not too stingy with them (plus it's survival horror so the challenge of "not save all the goddamn time" adds to the tension... somewhat). But this game wants to basically destroy you over and over in bullshit ways for fun and then keep you from saving.

          And this is all in the first couple of levels (and there's "levels", Quake/DOOM style that round up your score and secret/enemies total at the end). I've always been on the impression that it gets better later and I would like to finish the game just to say I finally did it but man, this game makes DNF look like Citizen Kane.

        • tw3kr legacy 10 years
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          April 20, 2012 9:02 PM

          And I thought phone-call break-ups were rough... ouch, man.

    • [deleted] 1060433626 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      April 20, 2012 3:31 PM

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      • Schnapple legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        April 20, 2012 4:26 PM

        So... is that a sign that they're getting desperate? I mean the game is four months old and it sounds like they're begging people to come back.

        I hate to say it but that PA strip may be right
        http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/12/21

        • joekamel legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          April 20, 2012 5:19 PM

          very obvious, with all the free weekends and shit

    • harold.johnson legacy 10 years
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      April 21, 2012 7:58 AM

      ok, i've held out on dx:hr long enough.

      should i get the normal version or the augmented? what about the dlc's?

      • harold.johnson legacy 10 years
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        April 21, 2012 10:17 AM

        bump?

      • azuvatar legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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        April 21, 2012 3:58 PM

        get the normal version+missing link dlc.
        the soundtrack is badass, so go with the augmented if you cannot find it separately, avoid the tactical and firepower packs (downside is that a very small mission that nods to the original is part of these, but you can do without it really).

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