The crazy part of the gaming year is just getting closer and closer. Too many new games, such little time! Seeing as we’re not all made of money (I know I’m not), I’m going to assume we will all be shopping with value in mind, at least to some kind of extent. If you have a set list of games but too little cash, it can be difficult to choose. Steam has teamed up with Ubisoft to put together some pre-purchase incentives for their upcoming titles, Far Cry 4 and Assassins Creed Unity. Will they twist your arm?
Far Cry 4 will be available from the 18th of November. The game says goodbye to Africa and tropical paradise, dropping the player off in the Himalayas instead. It’s an interesting setting for Far Cry, so I can’t wait to see how it turns out. Pre-purchasing the game will unlock Hurk’s redemption missions, which equates into about an extra hour of gameplay time. There will also be an exclusive weapon, a harpoon gun called ‘the impaler’.
Assassin’s Creed Unity will land a little earlier, on the 28th of October. Players will fill the shoes of an assassin called Arno, who is out to cause havoc during the French Revolution. Pre-purchase incentives include the following:
• The Chemical Revolution Mission
• Royal Arsenal Pack
• Athos Duel Shirt
• Black Musketeer Breeches
• Pappenheimer Rapier
I haven’t pre-purchased a game in years. The student life led me to rely on any sale I could get my hands on. Thus, I really couldn’t be bothered with extra content for paying for the game upfront. What about you? Are you swayed to purchase these early thanks to what is on offer?
I’m sure console people can look forward to these or similar incentives too. Still, I’ll just leave this here.
Last Updated: July 31, 2014
Hammersteyn
July 31, 2014 at 14:34
Hehehe and I’ll leave this here
http://i.imgur.com/8BHSrwl.png
Admiral Chief Dovahkiin
July 31, 2014 at 14:46
Bwahahahahahhaaaaaahahahahahahahahahhahahaaaaaaaaaaa
Sith JJ
July 31, 2014 at 14:50
Heh, potatoes
Umar GAAAAHH!
July 31, 2014 at 14:38
The problem I have with these things is…Why am I paying for extra mission? I have no idea what the mission entails other than its an extra hour or two. I’m paying for weapons that’ll be obsolete early game…Like wtf…Could these missions NOT be included in the main game?
Hammersteyn
July 31, 2014 at 14:40
Off course it could, but that would be like including fires with your meal and we can’t have that. No no no we need to charge extra, make more money.
Umar GAAAAHH!
July 31, 2014 at 14:42
They doing us a favor man, giving us MORE for our money….clearly we should be grateful
Hammersteyn
July 31, 2014 at 14:44
Undeniably grateful
hairyknees
July 31, 2014 at 15:08
Of course not! They have to remove them and sell them to you as an incentive 😉
Umar GAAAAHH!
July 31, 2014 at 21:18
Hehehehe……..true dat….I mean, we’re just cash bags afterall
Umar GAAAAHH!
July 31, 2014 at 14:40
Gamers these days are so obsessed with Completion time.
Sith JJ
July 31, 2014 at 14:46
I know dude. It’s flippen sad.
Rince&pop
July 31, 2014 at 14:47
Weren’t you saying the opposite to me earlier? 0_O
Umar GAAAAHH!
July 31, 2014 at 14:48
Really? That was in terms of the story.Sometimes a story is so good it makes me rush through the game because I want to see what happens next
Alien Emperor Trevor
July 31, 2014 at 14:49
That’s what she said?
Sith JJ
July 31, 2014 at 14:51
Then you must have a short story.
And Rince a graphic short story
Rince&pop
July 31, 2014 at 14:51
BOOM! HUGS?
Alien Emperor Trevor
July 31, 2014 at 14:59
The end. Nap time.
Sith JJ
July 31, 2014 at 15:00
typical! 😉
Rince&pop
July 31, 2014 at 15:02
I’d suggest NOT sleeping on that 🙂
Rince&pop
July 31, 2014 at 14:52
Ah, okay I see what you mean then. Yeah. I don’t get this speed run stuff either. It’s like skipping every page of a book except the chapter pages.
Sith JJ
July 31, 2014 at 14:53
Well, that got me through University.
Rince&pop
July 31, 2014 at 14:57
No, that was called ‘wikinotes’ wasn’t it?
Sith JJ
July 31, 2014 at 15:00
I had to Google Wikinotes now. I had no idea.
Rince&pop
July 31, 2014 at 15:01
And that’s why you probably passed everything 😉
Sith JJ
July 31, 2014 at 15:06
Of course.
“everything”
Hammersteyn
July 31, 2014 at 14:43
Wait….. these are Ubisoft games. Are they getting the Watchdogs treatment as well. Is Uplay gonna work properly?
http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/500x/45795610.jpg
Kensei Seraph
July 31, 2014 at 14:45
What kind of questions is that?
Of course it isn’t going to work properly.
Alien Emperor Trevor
July 31, 2014 at 14:46
Not on launch day hehe.
Sith JJ
July 31, 2014 at 14:45
Buy on Steam so you can play it through Uplay while having Steam open also otherwise it doesn’t work?
Hammersteyn
July 31, 2014 at 14:46
Glorious!
Kensei Seraph
July 31, 2014 at 14:48
After I buy the game I’ll get a fix for that.
Although I shouldn’t need to fix it to play a game I legally bought.
#$%^& DRM.
Sith JJ
July 31, 2014 at 14:49
Uplay – Promoting Piracy by trying to stop piracy
Rince&pop
July 31, 2014 at 14:54
If only someone on LG would keep up the noble goal of reminding us don’t do DRM. Sigh.
Hammersteyn
July 31, 2014 at 14:54
LOL where is he?
Sith JJ
July 31, 2014 at 14:55
Maybe he’s not the commenter we deserve, but the one we need right now?
Rince&pop
July 31, 2014 at 14:56
Sharpening his DRM fork?
Sith JJ
July 31, 2014 at 14:57
So he’s going to disappear for a few years, come back, have his back broken and then magically get fixed in a freakin dungeon and still make it back in time for tea? Only to say “Don’t support DRM”
Come now, listen to yourself, how silly does that sound? 😉
Admiral Chief Dovahkiin
July 31, 2014 at 15:00
XDXD
Rince&pop
July 31, 2014 at 15:02
DOn’t be STUPID. That would never work.
Sith JJ
July 31, 2014 at 15:04
I’m sure he won’t waste his time by going to one café for a few months every single day in the hopes that one of us will show up so he can nod at us.
Rince&pop
July 31, 2014 at 15:08
What, you mean how the LG Cape Town crew feels trying to meet up? HAHAHAHAHAHA
Sith JJ
July 31, 2014 at 15:11
LOL
That sounds exactly like it actually. But I had an excuse, I was working.
Rince&pop
July 31, 2014 at 14:56
lol
Hammersteyn
July 31, 2014 at 14:58
Ahahahaha
Kensei Seraph
July 31, 2014 at 14:55
Wasn’t there someone like that who used to ply these waters?
Alien Emperor Trevor
July 31, 2014 at 14:47
No, it’s just digital stuff – it’ll all be in the GOTY edition a year or so later down the line.
Hammersteyn
July 31, 2014 at 14:49
Soooooooo Steam sale then?
Alien Emperor Trevor
July 31, 2014 at 14:57
For me yes. I haven’t even started playing 3 yet.
Hammersteyn
July 31, 2014 at 14:57
O_o
Admiral Chief Dovahkiin
July 31, 2014 at 15:02
I haven’t even started 2.2
Alien Emperor Trevor
July 31, 2014 at 15:07
That one was fun. I’m busy with 2.3 now, enjoying it – but a good thing I took a long break between 2.2 & 2.3 because they’re fairly similar.
Admiral Chief Dovahkiin
July 31, 2014 at 15:15
Actually, I’m done with 2.2
Just remembered. I actually picked up 2.3 as a PHYSICAL copy (R40) a while ago.
Rince&pop
July 31, 2014 at 14:49
“Too many new games, such little time! Seeing as we’re not all made of money (I know I’m not)” Yeah, well, getting paid in cabbage currency from Gavin I am not surprised 😉
Alien Emperor Trevor
July 31, 2014 at 14:58
Moral of the story: When Gavin tells you he’s going to pay you in green it doesn’t mean what you think it means.
Hammersteyn
July 31, 2014 at 14:58
He shouldn’t complain. Cabbage soup is yummy
Admiral Chief Dovahkiin
July 31, 2014 at 15:02
I’ve got about 5 in my inventory currently
Alien Emperor Trevor
July 31, 2014 at 15:06
You mean “five” #amirite!
Rince&pop
July 31, 2014 at 15:06
lol
Sith JJ
July 31, 2014 at 14:58
I thought cabbage was a code word.
hairyknees
July 31, 2014 at 15:07
LOL xD
Rince&pop
July 31, 2014 at 15:07
That explains why we ended up buying LG T-shirts. Can you imagine how Gavin’s advocate must have felt?
Umar GAAAAHH!
July 31, 2014 at 14:49
Extra missions sounds like DLC…So we have gotten to the point of launch day DLC…That is so wrong
Kensei Seraph
July 31, 2014 at 14:52
We reached that point a long time ago.
Umar GAAAAHH!
July 31, 2014 at 14:52
Truth 🙁
Viking Of Science
July 31, 2014 at 15:08
There is a reason it happens man, After the Game is completed, It goes through the licensing approval phase by The Console companies (MS and Sony) And in that time, The Developers/programmers of the game have nothing to do. Having them Develop DLC makes financial sense from the studio’s standpoint. Besides, you can always NOT buy the DLC…. 😛 and NOT pre-order…. Vote with your wallet.
Sith JJ
July 31, 2014 at 14:52
A harpoon gun called ‘the impaler’.
Wow, I was almost expecting it to be called ‘the brick’
Rince&pop
July 31, 2014 at 15:10
So they’ve hired from EA?
Sportsprognoz.com - Money Way
July 31, 2014 at 15:28
Is it possible to make money on sport?