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Article #696807Re: Beyond Good and Evil is FREE this month
From: Zaghadka
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 02:43
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 02:43
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On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 19:34:58 +0000 (UTC), in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, Ross Ridge wrote: >Zaghadka <zagh...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>Nothing is going to get me to install U-Play. ;) > >Beyond Good and Evil is great game though, I'd say it alone would be >worth it except you can probably get during a sale from GOG.com for $2.50. >Even though I'm not into driving games The Crew was fun just drive around >aimlessly in a virtual United States. I passed on Rayman Origins because >I really don't like platformers, though I hear its a good example of >that type of game. I already had Splinter Cell though I haven't gotten >around to playing it, and I'll probably never play Prince of Persia: >The Sands of Time, but I got both free anyways. > >The UPlay client isn't a good as the Steam client or even the Origin >client, but it's not bad. My biggest complaint is that its slow, and >that largely appears a server/network issue. It seems UbiSoft is being >cheap in that area compared to Valve and EA. It probably would be a >good idea wait a while before getting Beyond Good and Evil, although I >doubt there will be a huge demand for the game overloading the servers. > To me, Origin is clunky as hell, but I have it because of numerous freebies, such as Battlefield 3. Steam is really ideal, IMHO. Between Steam and GOG.com, I've got a ton of games in my library already. But, come to think of it, I downloaded Bethesda.net so I could play Fallout Shelter, so I suppose one more games client isn't going to kill me. (*shrug*) -- Zag No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.' ~Dan(i) Bunten
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X-Received: by 10.36.142.2 with SMTP id h2mr1253127ite.28.1476326619920; Wed, 12 Oct 2016 19:43:39 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.157.36.202 with SMTP id z68ls4995745ota.47.gmail; Wed, 12 Oct 2016 19:43:39 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.17.52 with SMTP id g49mr1036077ote.95.1476326619027; Wed, 12 Oct 2016 19:43:39 -0700 (PDT) Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!w143ni1322itb.0!nntp.google.com!news.glorb.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx42.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Zaghadka <zagh...@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: Beyond Good and Evil is FREE this month Organization: E. Nygma & Sons, LLC Reply-To: zagh...@hotmail.com Message-ID: <btstvbhdbgg535ndia57pssidbou0vqklr@4ax.com> References: <0b164553-844d-4bb6-8595-a3f2d3c9bd3f@googlegroups.com> <nvusvbpb6i11o4v75raovtju4cfd3fs8ja@4ax.com> <ntm392$1o6u$1@gioia.aioe.org> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 MIME-Version: 1.0 Lines: 35 X-Complaints-To: ab...@easynews.com X-Complaints-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly. Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 21:43:29 -0500 X-Received-Bytes: 2538 X-Received-Body-CRC: 3225672435 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit