Well fuck me. Remember when I said Kingdoms of Amalur was the 2nd most underrated game of its generation? I've been meaning to make a thread about the 1st most, and it's only $15 right now on a flash sale.
Well I better get that thread up. But still, BUY REMEMBER ME. FUCKING DO IT. DO IT.
please make the thread. I won't buy it this sale because $15 is just too much for me right now after buying textbooks and holding out for different games, but I am super interested in this game but a little put off by all the flak it got, so I would like to hear what people liked about it.
(A lot of stuff is going on my winter sale wishlist)
By the way, if Beat Hazard wins the community choice, I thoroughly recommend it to people who like Audiosurf or strobe lights or shooting at things. While Audiosurf is more immersive in the track itself, and really good for relaxing especially, Beat Hazard is a very intense, lively experience that I find a refreshing alternative to Audiosurf (as someone who has a pretty big music library and loves track-based gameplay). Make sure you pick up the Ultra DLC (and this is a ripoff, but also the m4a/iTunes support if necessary ~_~), it's like a completely different game.
Insanely, I have over 200 hours on Audiosurf, but these days I find BH:U more enjoyable. Right now it's $5.09 for the mega bundle, which includes everything I said plus the new Shadow DLC that I didn't buy because it doesn't sound worth it but hey you'll be getting it cheaper this way anyway, you'll be paying $2 for the base game or $3.20 for the mega bundle at an 80% discount, and I consider it well worth this price if you have a good music library. My main criticisms would be lack of Unicode support (not an issue for me as, although my foreign music is tagged in native language for the most part, it's also well-categorised, but if you have all your jpop in one folder this is not gonna be fun for you) and some people would not enjoy having to unlock perks (through gameplay).
(Note that you can tone down the intense seizure-iffic visualisations, although the sparkliness of everything is really fun and part of the experience. Because of my epilepsy, although it is well medicated, I keep it lowered so that it's colourful but not dizzying and don't play for long stretches of time, but I'm sure if you max them out it's absolutely insane.)
On top of survival mode (which is just 'lots of tracks and shoot shit as long as you can live/tolerate'), it also has multiplayer options, but I consider music games a more introverted experience, so yeah.
edit: So far for me... Papers Please, Hate Plus, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Gone Home, SpaceChem, and Velvet Assassin because it was $0.50 and while I heard it was mediocre I still want to play it. I've been playing the shit out of Papers Please and Hate Plus (visual novel), sitting on the others for when I have the opportunity to play them. All I'm holding out for now is Civ V so I can get the complete edition and hopefully Antichamber (please? just a little more? I don't want to pay $6 if I don't have to, even though it's quite a large discount already. 80% would knock it down to $4 >.> but I might buy it at $6 if forced). I'd also like to pick up Long Live the Queen if it gets further discounted. Noped out on Child of Light, Kentucky Route Zero, Remember Me, and Dragon Age: Origins for the winter sale.
