PC Digital Download Games: Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition $16, Dead Island $4, Dead Island Game of the Year Edition $5.50, Downloadable Content $3 & More

Get Dark Souls now! One of the best games IMO. But yes you do need a gamepad and you will need to mod the game to have HD resolution, but it's worth it!

I used to get all my games on console and then I got tired of over priced DLC and games not going really low.

I can wait awhile and get a game+all dlc for less than 20 on PC, but on xbox the game will typically be 20+ and each DLC will never go under 5 or 7.50 if you're lucky to catch it on sale.

Will be grabbing Dark Souls on Amazon for 12.50 but great prices without coupons.

Quote from xdbx : Don't waste your money on dark souls unless you love horrible console ports. Bought it yesterday and immediately requested a refund. EVERYTHING in the game is still console based, the beginning tutorials still tell you to press xbox buttons etc. Normally I can deal with a little bit of this, but in this case it makes the game completely unplayable. Also, if you have multi displays forget about it. This game does not constrain the mouse to the game window, so you're constantly clicking out of the game window while attempting to look around. The game might be alright on the console, but that's where it should have stayed.

From was harassed about making a PC port even though they had no experience with computer games. They were 100% honest about this from day one and the community told them they didn't care and wanted it anyway. There are some pretty aggravating cases of consolitis, but Dark Souls isn't one that has bothered me. This is purely a case of people asking for something, being told pretty clearly how it was going to be, then throwing a fit when it came out.

You will have to get a controller though, because the controls are still atrocious, that just tends to happen with this sort of game on a computer.

I'm not going to sit here and argue keyboard vs controller all night. That's not the point I'm trying to make. The point I'm trying to make is that this is a horribly sub par console port. I don't think it's unrealistic to expect a pc game to be 100% playable straight out of the box. This game isn't. I'm simply trying to warn those thinking about buying this that there are huge concerns if you expect to play with a standard mouse and keyboard. I've never seen such a lazily done console port.

Dead Island worth it? Heard the game has tons of issues.

Just a note to people interested in Dead Island: it looks like the GOTY edition ($5.44) contains all the DLC, which would be cheaper than if you bought the base edition and DLCs separately.

EDIT: It's important to note that a lot of people have had motion-sickness issues with Dead Island, most likely due to the very low FOV, motion blur, and mouse acceleration. I found this config tool [steampowered.com] on the Steam forums that easily lets you modify these settings.

In for Sonic Racing. $21.60 with a $2 credit towards a future purchase = my first GMG purchase. I really liked the last one but my son loved it. Thanks OP!

Quote from xdbx : I'm not going to sit here and argue keyboard vs controller all night. That's not the point I'm trying to make. The point I'm trying to make is that this is a horribly sub par console port. I don't think it's unrealistic to expect a pc game to be 100% playable straight out of the box. This game isn't. I'm simply trying to warn those thinking about buying this that there are huge concerns if you expect to play with a standard mouse and keyboard. I've never seen such a lazily done console port.

The makers of Dark Souls never wanted to do a pc port and said it would be horrible because they are console dev's and have no idea how to develop for pc. They got enough of a fan request that they decided to do one and it was much less horrible than they promised. It does work straight out of the box but is better with the fan made patch.

Just scooped up this dark souls deal. Been waiting on something to come up for it. Although its not the best vanilla port just use the texture mod that was made by a player (nearly on release i think) and a xbox controller and its good enough for me! can't wait for a challenging game that keeps me on my toes and makes me actually scared to die. Great deal, lowest price i've seen dark souls for PC

Quote from qwertyaas : Dead Island worth it? Heard the game has tons of issues.

I don't care what anybody says Dead Island is awesome, I beat it 3 times and I like never do that with a game, usually beat once and done 4 life. I loved it and had no trouble with it, that's a steal!

For anyone arguing that a gampad shouldnt be required - think about racing games. Are you REALLY going to play that with a M/KB? REALLY?! And if not a M/KB are you going to buy a racing wheel for $100+? No, intelligent PC gamers buy a controller to enhance their experience with certain games. You get the games for cheaper and get a better experience than you get on consoles nearly every damn time. Its also worth noting that a 360 Controller basically just goes when plugged into a Windows 7 PC and dont even start with any Windows XP bullshit...get with the times or get out.

All that said...Im hoping to pay a little less because of the whole porting problem. lol not to be a hypocrite. I want to get the game and appreciate that I can fix it but the fact that I need to fix it myself also means they dont deserve more than $15. If that modder did it day one in one day...they could have taken an extra month and released the game with proper features and increased stability. Theres no excuse for BS quality even if the PC community asked for it. They have a rep to uphold and that isnt a good way to honor it.

Quote from xdbx : I'm not going to sit here and argue keyboard vs controller all night. That's not the point I'm trying to make. The point I'm trying to make is that this is a horribly sub par console port. I don't think it's unrealistic to expect a pc game to be 100% playable straight out of the box. This game isn't. I'm simply trying to warn those thinking about buying this that there are huge concerns if you expect to play with a standard mouse and keyboard. I've never seen such a lazily done console port.

I made a nice post similar to yours over at the Steam forums and my god you would've thought I was talking about people's mothers the way that they lashed out at me. I mentioned the graphics being a bit dated (and yes the fix helps a little, but they still seem very consolely), the sound being terrible (the wind blowing leaves in the trees sounds like white noise as well as many other sounds just having a poor sample rate), the controls being very unresponsive and clunky (why make the run, roll, and jump the same button?), and the leveling up system is one of the most unrewarding ones that I've ever seen (there's times where you only level up in 1% increments). I was completely underwhelmed by a newer title. I like a challenge, but they made this game much too hard in many spots and impossible to figure out without referencing wikipedia a bunch. And this game is completely devoid of any storyline, I mean I beat all the bosses (as far as I can tell). What now? Is the game over or what? I like having a non-linear game, but this lacks any kind of direction making the game feel like it was loosely thrown together.

It's not all bad, for instance the online interaction is pretty neat but I find that there's more negatives than positives. After playing through it a bunch, I really don't understand all the praise that this game got. I mean there's much better ways to waste your time than this game like Skyrim. Hell, the other game on sale here, Dead Island is one thousand times better in every way. I had fun playing that and that's the way a good indie game should be, not a PITA and full of stress.

Dunno if this was covered in another post, but you might want to add

Hard Reset $4 (AC) http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/u...ard-reset/

which is also activates on steam.

Risen is also a decent game, for ~$4 but no steam key for that one.

Quote from ROKET : For anyone arguing that a gampad shouldnt be required - think about racing games. Are you REALLY going to play that with a M/KB? REALLY?! And if not a M/KB are you going to buy a racing wheel for $100+? No, intelligent PC gamers buy a controller to enhance their experience with certain games. You get the games for cheaper and get a better experience than you get on consoles nearly every damn time. Its also worth noting that a 360 Controller basically just goes when plugged into a Windows 7 PC and dont even start with any Windows XP bullshit...get with the times or get out. All that said...Im hoping to pay a little less because of the whole porting problem. lol not to be a hypocrite. I want to get the game and appreciate that I can fix it but the fact that I need to fix it myself also means they dont deserve more than $15. If that modder did it day one in one day...they could have taken an extra month and released the game with proper features and increased stability. Theres no excuse for BS quality even if the PC community asked for it. They have a rep to uphold and that isnt a good way to honor it.

I agree, all PC gamers should have a controller of some sort. The 360 one is the best IMO because it's the most compatible with modern Windows games. Hell, I've always had some sort of gamepad or joystick going way back to commodore 64 days. I don't know what you're trying to say about 360 controllers not working right with xp. It's a mircosoft product man. Sure, the driver for it isn't there natively but as soon as you plug it in it's recognized and downloaded from microsoft straight away.

I feel you on the shoddy port thing. There's too many publishers/developers that don't put any time or effort into console ports and the worst part is that they just leave them "as is". A good example of a game that I played lately was Prototype 2 (great game BTW) and not only did it not have any PC optimizations (I can live with that), but was plagued by performance issues causing loss of performance after a while and frequent crashes. Sonic & Sega Racing All-Stars is another game that remains unpatched (has major issues with newer AMD cards) which is why I wont buy the second one on sale here until I can find out if all is well with it (can't expect patches from Sega). I do know the circumstances regarding the Dark Souls port (as mentioned earlier it wasn't even supposed to come to PC), but they still did it and I'm sure they made a bit of $ off of it. Why didn't they use that $ to patch it some? At any event I didn't find this title too enjoyable, so there's not much point in going on about how bad of a port it is (I'm sure I would've disliked the console version just as much). Anyone who is interested in it, just make sure you know what you're getting into.