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    #8642
    van_beano
    Registered Users Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭van_beano


    Just finished the Walking Dead Season 2. An absolutely fantastic game, the storyline was so good. Very limited user interaction, it's like watching a movie really.

    Haven't played Season 1 yet so I'm definitely going to purchase that, apparently it's a better game that Season 2.

    I'd recommend playing this game if you haven't already, was on plus a couple of months back.


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    #8643
    James74
    Registered Users Posts: 963 ✭✭✭James74


    For anybody yet to play the Walking Dead games, I strongly recommend playing them in order.


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    #8644
    gimli2112
    Registered Users Posts: 13,409 ✭✭✭✭gimli2112


    They're really not my type of game but I picked up Season 2 when it went free and bought Season 1 to play it in order. Actually really enjoying it. Very different to what I usually play


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    #8645
    RedXIV
    Registered Users Posts: 8,437 ✭✭✭RedXIV


    James74 wrote: »
    For anybody yet to play the Walking Dead games, I strongly recommend playing them in order.

    Is there alot carried over from season 1 to 2? I played season 1 on ps3 and got season 2 free on ps4, will I miss much not being able to "continue" my story?


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    #8646
    van_beano
    Registered Users Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭van_beano


    RedXIV wrote: »
    Is there alot carried over from season 1 to 2? I played season 1 on ps3 and got season 2 free on ps4, will I miss much not being able to "continue" my story?

    Season Two pre-determines choices that you may have made in Season one if there is no previous save file available. I'm considering replaying Season Two once I finish Season One.

    Looking for the cheapest place to get Season One now, €24.99 for the PS4 complete package with all DLC's on the PS Store seems quite reasonable.


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    #8647
    EoinMcLovin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,994 ✭✭✭EoinMcLovin


    van_beano wrote:
    Looking for the cheapest place to get Season One now, €24.99 for the PS4 complete package with all DLC's on the PS Store seems quite reasonable.


    Season one is always on sale every few months and is usually $6 on us store or €12 on irish


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    #8648
    van_beano
    Registered Users Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭van_beano


    EoinMcLovin wrote: »
    Season one is always on sale every few months and is usually $6 on us store or €12 on irish

    Thanks Eoin, I'll hold off getting it yet so..


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    #8649
    EoinMcLovin
    Registered Users Posts: 8,994 ✭✭✭EoinMcLovin


    van_beano wrote:
    Thanks Eoin, I'll hold off getting it yet so..

    Have played both seasons on xbox already so in the same boat as you in that I need to get Season 1 but waiting for when its in sale as 24.99 is way too much for it now.
    Psprices.com is great for seeing the pricing history for games. That's where I found the lowest prices it's been at


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    #8650
    van_beano
    Registered Users Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭van_beano


    EoinMcLovin wrote: »
    Have played both seasons on xbox already so in the same boat as you in that I need to get Season 1 but waiting for when its in sale as 24.99 is way too much for it now.
    Psprices.com is great for seeing the pricing history for games. That's where I found the lowest prices it's been at

    Checked Amazon price tracker, they've had it at £12 back in Sept for the physical copy, £23 now.


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    #8651
    WarZoneBrother
    Registered Users Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭WarZoneBrother


    I take it we didn't get Episode 2 of Kings Quest, what an absolute money making scheme by the developers... Unbelievable that the 1st episode of any episodic game would be one of the free titles for PS+ and of all times on the month of December...


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    #8652
    F1ngers
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,301 Mod ✭✭✭✭F1ngers


    WarZoneBrother wrote: »
    I take it we didn't get Episode 2 of Kings Quest, what an absolute money making scheme by the developers... Unbelievable that the 1st episode of any episodic game would be one of the free titles for PS+ and of all times on the month of December...

    On top of that, the full game is still €40 to buy even though we have episode 1.
    No reduction if you do decide to purchase.


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    #8653
    Xenji
    Registered Users Posts: 11,505 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    WarZoneBrother wrote: »
    I take it we didn't get Episode 2 of Kings Quest, what an absolute money making scheme by the developers... Unbelievable that the 1st episode of any episodic game would be one of the free titles for PS+ and of all times on the month of December...

    How is it a money making scheme, this strategy has been used for decades, it's great that a small developer has been given a chance to get their game and a game that is being highly praised out to a larger audience.

    Most people unless interested prior to the games release would probably have ignored it, now I am sure they have got a lot more people hooked and have increased their fan base and sales base, with so many developers going under these days, any extra exposure is a great benefit.


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    #8654
    F1ngers
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,301 Mod ✭✭✭✭F1ngers


    Xenji wrote: »
    How is it a money making scheme, this strategy has been used for decades, it's great that a small developer has been given a chance to get their game and a game that is being highly praised out to a larger audience.

    Most people unless interested prior to the games release would probably have ignored it, now I am sure they have got a lot more people hooked and have increased their fan base and sales base, with so many developers going under these days, any extra exposure is a great benefit.

    Generally I would agree with you(have bought DLC for PS+ games) but since when is Activision a small developer?


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    #8655
    Xenji
    Registered Users Posts: 11,505 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    F1ngers wrote: »
    Generally I would agree with you(have bought DLC for PS+ games) but since when is Activision a small developer?

    The Odd Gentlemen did most of the work on it.


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    #8656
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Xenji wrote: »
    How is it a money making scheme, this strategy has been used for decades, it's great that a small developer has been given a chance to get their game and a game that is being highly praised out to a larger audience.

    Most people unless interested prior to the games release would probably have ignored it, now I am sure they have got a lot more people hooked and have increased their fan base and sales base, with so many developers going under these days, any extra exposure is a great benefit.

    Telltale have given plenty of their first episodes away for free. They've never taken up a spot in the IGC. At a time when Xbox users are getting an extra game from Games with Gold in the run up to Christmas as a reward, it looks like a very cheap move from Sony.


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    #8657
    kunst nugget
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    F1ngers wrote: »
    Generally I would agree with you(have bought DLC for PS+ games) but since when is Activision a small developer?

    I've bought DLC for PS+ games too but they were full games you were getting, not one fifth of a game.


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    #8658
    WarZoneBrother
    Registered Users Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭WarZoneBrother


    Xenji wrote: »
    How is it a money making scheme, this strategy has been used for decades, it's great that a small developer has been given a chance to get their game and a game that is being highly praised out to a larger audience.

    Most people unless interested prior to the games release would probably have ignored it, now I am sure they have got a lot more people hooked and have increased their fan base and sales base, with so many developers going under these days, any extra exposure is a great benefit.

    They are using the PS+ system so all the users will try out this "Free Game" in order to generate money for themselves... How is that not a money making scheme?...

    If they wanted to generate money in a more appropriate way they would have the 1st episode free for everyone like most of the Tell Tale Games have added the 1st episode free... They would have made a fortune giving all the episodes for free anyways so why make people pay an extra €40 on top of their sub already?... If they where going to choose it as one of the games another game should have been added as this really isn't a full game at all...


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    #8659
    TheZPPanda
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭TheZPPanda


    It's really amusing how much people complain about PS+ when it only costs about 4 euro a month. The best value I've gotten out of a subscription service even if not every game is to my taste. I think it's fairly obvious Episode 1 of King's Quest was given to boost sales of Episode 2. I really don't know what people expect from the service for the little that they're paying.


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    #8660
    cadete
    Registered Users Posts: 1,774 ✭✭✭cadete


    TheZPPanda wrote: »
    . I really don't know what people expect from the service for the little that they're paying.

    Decent speeds and a reliable network would suffice to a lot of us,


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    #8661
    TheZPPanda
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭TheZPPanda


    cadete wrote: »
    Decent speeds and a reliable network would suffice to a lot of us,

    Well that problem is independent of PS+ really. The network has been dreadful for years


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    #8662
    cadete
    Registered Users Posts: 1,774 ✭✭✭cadete


    TheZPPanda wrote: »
    Well that problem is independent of PS+ really. The network has been dreadful for years

    Once they made it mandatory to have plus for online play it became part of it,


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    #8663
    WarZoneBrother
    Registered Users Posts: 5,534 ✭✭✭WarZoneBrother


    TheZPPanda wrote: »
    It's really amusing how much people complain about PS+ when it only costs about 4 euro a month. The best value I've gotten out of a subscription service even if not every game is to my taste. I think it's fairly obvious Episode 1 of King's Quest was given to boost sales of Episode 2. I really don't know what people expect from the service for the little that they're paying.

    Paying for a subscription to build up a games collection and then getting shafted with 1/5th of a game is just ridiculous... If you want to throw out an episode to boost your sales give it to all users and then maybe that will entice more people to purchase, don't use it as a silly PS+ title when it really doesn't belong there at all...


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    #8664
    TheZPPanda
    Registered Users Posts: 53 ✭✭TheZPPanda


    WarZoneBrother wrote: »
    Paying for a subscription to build up a games collection and then getting shafted with 1/5th of a game is just ridiculous... If you want to throw out an episode to boost your sales give it to all users and then maybe that will entice more people to purchase, don't use it as a silly PS+ title when it really doesn't belong there at all...

    As far as I can tell from a quick search, it's about 5 hours long which isn't unusual for a PS+ offering. They don't give it away because they get paid by Sony to have it as a PS+ title on top of the game reaching a large user base who likely never would have touched it.


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    #8665
    Xenji
    Registered Users Posts: 11,505 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    If we got the first episode of Final Fantasy 7 on Plus I doubt anyone would be complaining.


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    #8666
    Orizio
    Registered Users Posts: 9,460 ✭✭✭Orizio


    WarZoneBrother wrote: »
    Paying for a subscription to build up a games collection and then getting shafted with 1/5th of a game is just ridiculous... If you want to throw out an episode to boost your sales give it to all users and then maybe that will entice more people to purchase, don't use it as a silly PS+ title when it really doesn't belong there at all...

    ...on what basis does it not belong there?

    Its 5 hours plus and a very high quality game. Probably the best PS+ this year.


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    #8667
    tok9
    Registered Users Posts: 7,160 ✭✭✭tok9


    Xenji wrote: »
    If we got the first episode of Final Fantasy 7 on Plus I doubt anyone would be complaining.

    You would think that but people do complain a lot.


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    #8668
    Xenji
    Registered Users Posts: 11,505 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    tok9 wrote: »
    You would think that but people do complain a lot.

    Just wait for Knack to arrive, although it looks like Thief will be the first AAA game seeing they have got it in Asia already.

    "Man these indie games on plus suck, where are the AAA games?" ....."Seriously? Knack?, man its AAA but it sucks...and what its 36GB to download, screw that, I hate plus but will keep subscribing"

    Imagine a world of just Fifa and CoD, it would be hell.


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    #8669
    Beefy78
    Registered Users Posts: 8,163 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    WarZoneBrother wrote: »
    They are using the PS+ system so all the users will try out this "Free Game" in order to generate money for themselves... How is that not a money making scheme?...

    If they wanted to generate money in a more appropriate way they would have the 1st episode free for everyone like most of the Tell Tale Games have added the 1st episode free... They would have made a fortune giving all the episodes for free anyways so why make people pay an extra €40 on top of their sub already?... If they where going to choose it as one of the games another game should have been added as this really isn't a full game at all...

    All games are on PS+ to generate money for the developer and studio. That is the point.


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    #8670
    Benzino
    Registered Users Posts: 3,803 ✭✭✭Benzino


    cadete wrote: »
    Decent speeds and a reliable network would suffice to a lot of us,

    Yup, it's my major gripe with PSN. To be fair, it's be grand lately and I haven't noticed it going down for maintenance in a while either. So maybe they have finally sorted it out.


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    #8671
    EoinHef
    Registered Users Posts: 5,574 ✭✭✭EoinHef


    Orizio wrote: »
    ...on what basis does it not belong there?

    Its 5 hours plus and a very high quality game. Probably the best PS+ this year.

    Because its not a complete game,its part of a game. Fair point imo


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