DSOGaming writes: "We’ve been late to the party. Shame on us. Still, we are presenting you today the third day of Steam’s Autumn Sale. PC gamers can purchase today Skyrim and Transformer: Fall of Cybertron for 24,99€, Crysis 2 for 10,49€, Saints Row: The Third for 7,49€ and Prototype for 14.99€. In addition, Max Payne 3 - perhaps the most optimized PC game of 2013 – comes with a 70% discount and will cost you 12,49€."
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
Replaying Skyrim after 13 years is a reminder of the progress made in western RPGs over the last decade, but also what's been lost.
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
I grabbed RAGE for $4.99 yesterday. Gotta love Steam! Don't forget to head over to grenmangaming ... they are also having an awesome sale. Dishonered (Steam activated) $22.50 after code applied. :)
Biggest positive for PC gamers is this sales. Wish my PC was powerful enough. Don't know why don't SONY/Microsoft make digital sales as well for their games.