What are you playing at the moment? [Archive] - Page 17

Lambchops

13-03-2012, 08:43 PM

1000 Amps

I really dislike it. It's a shame. I wanted to like it, I really did. Nice concept, appealing presentation, platform based puzzles; all looked well.

Unfortunately I'm finding it an exercise in frustration. I get that it's designed so that part of the puzzle is to hit all the nodes in a room without leaving it. Fantastic, great. Only I don't know where the exits are initially do I? So I can spend a bit of time figuring out a puzzle only to fall through an exit which then has me falling through several other bloody rooms, putting me miles away from the puzzle I'd almost figure out. Fan-bloody-tastic, that's obviously just what I wanted! Plus the controls often lag slightly meaning that an attempt to move a single space to light up a node nearby an exit sees the character careering into the next room undoing any work I've done. Hooray!

Also unless I'm missing something obvious there's a certain degree of luck involved. The whole losing nodes when you teleport thing seems arbitrary at best (I assume unveiling more blocks makes you less likely to lose a node on teleporting but what gets lost seems completely arbitrary leading to lots of cycles of me teleporting again and again, hoping to get the outcome I want but having no clue whether it's actually going to be the case.

Not to mention the rather unhelpful map system.

So as much as I want to like it I can't recommend it, though lots of people seem to rather enjoy it so maybe I'm just being a bit dense/suffering from control lag that others don't see. Would definitely recommend trying the demo first, I don't grudge buying it as it was very cheap but at that same time I'd rather have bought something else!

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And just so this whole post isn't negativity (I don't like being negative, me), I've also been playing Stacking which is as lovely and charming as everyone says it is.

Althea

13-03-2012, 08:53 PM

Test Drive Unlimited 2
Start: Eh. Why the fuck has it started windowed?
Few minutes later: Why can't I fucking steer?
Hour later: Why the fuck are all these shoes with heels?
Another hour later: Vrooooooom
Another hour later: WHERE DID THE TIME GO
A further hour later: OH GOD I'VE BEEN PLAYING THIS ALL EVENING I LIKE IT QUITE A BIT

Nalano

13-03-2012, 08:55 PM

Were I any more tongue-in-cheek I'd probably categorize various sub-genres of "indie" game as

- Slightly crap platformer
- Graphical UI for music collection
- "art" game

Lambchops

13-03-2012, 08:59 PM

1000 Amps

Also unless I'm missing something obvious there's a certain degree of luck involved.

Re-reading John's Wot I Think (as I was wondering why he liked it so much!) I now realise I was missing the fact that it's the blocks around you which disappear. Which makes a lot of sense and has encouraged me to stick with it a while longer, though my other points still stand (oh and those enemy things are bloody annoying, I've no idea how to deal with them and whether the game will give me anything to do so!). I've decided that the game's weakness is in not laying it's ground rulse particularly clearly (how hard would it have been to make the "blocks beside you disappear when you teleport thing" so explicit that it was impossible to miss in the way I did?). It's possible to be bastard hard while still introducing the basic puzzle elements in a relatively simplistic manner (see Spacechem).

Anyway, may have been unduly harsh on this, will soon find out!

Casimir Effect

13-03-2012, 09:07 PM

Were I any more tongue-in-cheek I'd probably categorize various sub-genres of "indie" game as

- Slightly crap platformer
- Graphical UI for music collection
- "art" game
You forgot
- Retro darling

Nalano

13-03-2012, 09:07 PM

You forgot
- Retro darling

They all think they're that.

NathanH

13-03-2012, 09:21 PM

Also don't forget "mainstream title with the fun removed".

Drake Sigar

13-03-2012, 09:28 PM

Spent an hour or so on Gemini Rue and am surprised to find no silly vague item puzzels. Thus far the usage of items makes sense.

Center 7 creeps me out.

Heliocentric

13-03-2012, 09:37 PM

Spent an hour or so on Gemini Rue and am surprised to find no silly vague item puzzels. Thus far the usage of items makes sense.
I know, its clearly in the wrong genre.

I think this is somehow a universal law of Isaac.

I killed her on a shitty pc that was so laggy I dodged bullets like one of the improved agents in the matrix.

alms

13-03-2012, 09:39 PM

Center 7 creeps me out.

The first time I played it, I didn't like the sudden change of setting. That and combat, but I got used to it.

DaftPunk

13-03-2012, 09:53 PM

I continued my journey in Silent Hill,i came to the school in search of my daughter,i solved a tower puzzle,feels good :D

But now the school is all rusty and shit,kinda spooky..I want to go back,fuck my daughter :(

Althea

13-03-2012, 09:59 PM

I want to go back,fuck my daughter :(
Um.. Okay. Good luck with that.

NathanH

13-03-2012, 10:03 PM

Um.. Okay. Good luck with that.

I am glad I am not the only one who thought that!

DaftPunk

13-03-2012, 10:15 PM

Ah come one it was a joke,we are talking about the game,not real thing. Damn forum people always serious..

Althea

13-03-2012, 10:32 PM

Pot calling the kettle black there, I'm afraid.

Drake Sigar

13-03-2012, 10:42 PM

it was a joke
Please don't do those anymore.

DaftPunk

13-03-2012, 10:52 PM

Its like all of you have at least one daughter to feel so violated by me saying that.

Althea

13-03-2012, 11:01 PM

No, it's just - and forgive my bluntness here - your slightly wobbly grasp of English makes it hard to tell if you're joking, and judging by your post at the top, it makes it hard for you to tell when we're joking.

Rauten

13-03-2012, 11:18 PM

Test Drive Unlimited 2
Hour later: Why the fuck are all these shoes with heels?

Please, if you manage to, at any point in the game, in any store anywhere, even if it's in the middle of a goddamn volcano, find some shoes without heels, PLEASE tell me. I f'ing hate heels.

Nalano

13-03-2012, 11:20 PM

Now that all of you have thoroughly buried any chuckles we could have gotten from this exchange, can we talk about what games we're playing?

ME3 multiplayer. Vanguards piss me off.

Lemme steal all your kills and block your shot and die in the most inconvenient place possible and bitch when you don't rez me

Please, if you manage to, at any point in the game, in any store anywhere, even if it's in the middle of a goddamn volcano, find some shoes without heels, PLEASE tell me. I f'ing hate heels.

Is there any point in the game where you're walking with your own two feet?

Casimir Effect

13-03-2012, 11:36 PM

Its like all of you have at least one daughter to feel so violated by me saying that.

No, it's just - and forgive my bluntness here - your slightly wobbly grasp of English makes it hard to tell if you're joking, and judging by your post at the top, it makes it hard for you to tell when we're joking.
Was the original statement meant as:
'I want to go back and fuck my daughter'
or
'I want to go back, fuck finding my daughter'
As I'm really confused here.

airtekh

13-03-2012, 11:41 PM

DaftPunk

13-03-2012, 11:50 PM

Was the original statement meant as:
'I want to go back and fuck my daughter'
or
'I want to go back, fuck finding my daughter'
As I'm really confused here.

I never expected to see people bash my english x) It was meant as fuck finding my daughter,i just want to get out of this creepy place.

Nalano

13-03-2012, 11:55 PM

Was the original statement meant as:
'I want to go back and fuck my daughter'
or
'I want to go back, fuck finding my daughter'
As I'm really confused here.

Thanks for explaining the joke!

</sarcasm>

Casimir Effect

14-03-2012, 12:35 AM

I never expected to see people bash my english x) It was meant as fuck finding my daughter,i just want to get out of this creepy place.
Your English wasn't really at fault, it was just a sentence which didn't translate well to the written medium.

Thanks for explaining the joke!

</sarcasm>
For you, anything.

NathanH

14-03-2012, 08:19 AM

I've made a start on Fallout: New Vegas. I quite enjoyed Fallout 3 when I played it last year, so hopefully New Vegas is more of that.

I'm also still playing Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012. Because I know bugger all about Magic: The Gathering, I have no idea if it's representive of the actual card game; but it is really fun to play.

New Vegas is similar enough to Fallout 3 that you should enjoy it, and different enough to be fresh. It's the a pretty good example of how to do a sequel/spinoff.

Planeswalkers is, from my limited experience of real Magic, pretty representative (although I never could get decks as interesting without paying far too much). It gets some rules wrong, but they are mostly obscure rules that I wouldn't get right anyway. The only one that is obviously wrong and bad is the Call to the Grave bug. The auto-tapping can be a pain for a couple of decks, though. The removal of the end step removes some tricks too.

Althea

14-03-2012, 09:53 AM

Please, if you manage to, at any point in the game, in any store anywhere, even if it's in the middle of a goddamn volcano, find some shoes without heels, PLEASE tell me. I f'ing hate heels.
Will do. Chances are I won't, at least on Ibiza.

Is there any point in the game where you're walking with your own two feet?
Sort of. You walk around buildings, and there are "scenes" where you're shown walking. But it's largely a matter of principle.

TailSwallower

14-03-2012, 11:29 AM

I've made a start on Fallout: New Vegas. I quite enjoyed Fallout 3 when I played it last year, so hopefully New Vegas is more of that.

Even though I think New Vegas is better than Fallout 3 in every conceivable way, I've still had trouble getting stuck into it as much as I got stuck into Fallout 3, simply because mechanically it's basically the same game. I was giving it another proper go, but I'm stuck on my netbook now until late this year, so it will have to wait (along with approximately 2/3 of my backlog).

Musicacbx

14-03-2012, 12:54 PM

APB
BF3
Minecraft

Tikey

14-03-2012, 02:03 PM

Stacking. It's soooo charming

Kodeen

14-03-2012, 09:12 PM

Drake Sigar

14-03-2012, 09:27 PM

Finished Gemini Rue. I love that feeling when the credits hit. It felt like a complete experience, where as most games don't end so much as stop.

Wizardry

14-03-2012, 09:47 PM

I'm not actually playing it right now, but I set Wasteland up in Dosbox for later. Is there supposed to be any sound besides bleeps and bloops while walking? Just want to make sure I don't need to tweak the audio (my least favorite thing to do with Dosbox).
No music. In the 80s very few cRPGs had music. The Ultima series was the main player back then, as Ultima III (1983) and onwards had full soundtracks, with every type of location and situation having their own tracks (combat, shopping, towns, villages, dungeons etc). Other than the Ultima series... The Bard's Tale had a few tracks that your bard (if you had one) could play to buff your party, but they were nothing but 20 second loops. The 80s Gold Box games (Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds) had music at the start of the game, but nothing in game. I remember Dragon Wars having music in Purgatory at least. It was very atmospheric but rather repetitive.

Just play the Fallout music in the background or something. That's what I'd do.

Kodeen

14-03-2012, 09:58 PM

Snip

Great, thanks! I don't even mind the lack of music, just wanted to make sure Dosbox wasn't glitching out.

FriendlyFire

15-03-2012, 03:21 AM

After forgetting the last 30 minutes of Mass Effect 3, I've decided to pick back up SimCity 4 after the recent announcement of a new game in the series. I'm trying to finally make something worthwhile as opposed to target practice for meteors this time around.

sabrage

15-03-2012, 04:02 AM

I got as far as reading the manual for Catherine, but Severance/Blade of Darkness crossed my mind so now of course I'm playing that instead.

I'm kind of trying to see how far I can get without saving.

simast

15-03-2012, 07:45 AM

Tried some Silent Hunter 5 with mods (you need a LOT of them to make the game enjoyable and it takes ages to install and resolve all the conflicts), and still it felt lacking in every way and the graphics can't really stand on their own.

Then went to Silent Hunter 4 + Operation Monsun mod (german campaign) - better, but still couldn't hold me interested.

Finally, took Silent Hunter 3 + GWX + other mods for a spin. Can't stop playing. What a brilliant combo. What a brilliant game.

jackaroda

15-03-2012, 08:36 AM

I have been playing Biohazard 4 horror video game on mine pc. It's really amazing graphic and best soundtrack...I liked Leon character.......

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Heliocentric

15-03-2012, 08:42 AM

Jack, do you have a good modpack link you could give me? I've honestly has trouble finding a mouselook mid.

Althea

15-03-2012, 09:44 AM

Jack is a spammer/bot.

Casimir Effect

15-03-2012, 09:51 AM

I am Jack's poor robot heart.

DaftPunk

15-03-2012, 11:14 AM

Jack, do you have a good modpack link you could give me? I've honestly has trouble finding a mouselook mid.

I can help you mate,i modded my game to look better then all versions of RE4.

http://shrani.si/f/2U/10/30nDM0EL/3/game-2011-02-21-17-22-23.jpg
http://shrani.si/f/z/Re/2qeEfzKP/2/game-2011-02-24-22-57-48.jpg
http://shrani.si/f/27/5U/g7trFKi/2/game-2011-02-25-20-59-08.jpg

Texture patch 2.0

http://z6.invisionfree.com/Resident_Evil_4_PC/index.php?showtopic=1631

Enhanced Enviroment 1.5

http://www.moddb.com/mods/enhanced-environment/addons/enhanced-environment-complete

High-Definition Cutscenes

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3696539/

High-Res Skins for Weapons

http://z6.invisionfree.com/Resident_Evil_4_PC/index.php?showtopic=15198

Xbox360 Buttons

http://s6.invisionfree.com/Resident_Evil_4_PC/ar/t17915.htm

Basically this is all you need,and don't forget to apply that official patch first. :D

Taerix

15-03-2012, 12:44 PM

I've been playing mostly Starcraft 2 lately. Used to play WoW quite a bit but just couldn't find the time anymore.

Drake Sigar

15-03-2012, 02:10 PM

That song 'Another Day's Work' on Gemini Rue makes me Bladerunner so hard.

alms

15-03-2012, 04:59 PM

The OST is selling for 2.99 USD. Great tracks in there.

TailSwallower

16-03-2012, 09:40 AM

What's with all the bots?*

Played a couple of hours of NEO Scavenger, but decided to give it a rest seeing as it's just a demo, and a beta one at that. I think there's a good chance I'll come back to it later once it's finished.

Other than that, not much. Tending toward playing demos/alphas instead of playing the finished games that are languishing in my backlog.

*Maybe they're genuine people, but the links in their sigs look spamtastic to me.

Similar

16-03-2012, 09:58 AM

Played Crysis: Warhead. Started out on the default difficulty, but it's not much fun, not because it's too hard but because it causes too much randomness. I had three nanosuit enemies in front of me and the two first went down with two shots each from the sniper rifle. The third needed eighteen shots. Same with the normal soldiers; some of them just keep getting up over and over.
So I restarted on Easy and had much more fun. Curiously, the Korean soldier who survived three 20mm explosive rounds to the chest on default difficulty also survived them on Easy. Only that specific soldier.

Now I'm replaying Crysis, partly because I kept mixing it up with Warhead and misremembered which sections were in which game, so I felt something was missing when I'd finished Warhead. Warhead was also a good bit shorter than I remembered.
It's fun, though as always I'm dreading reaching the floaty bit.

Also playing Faerie Solitaire. It's pleasant.

apricotsoup

16-03-2012, 10:31 AM

Last night was a fun stint on dungeons of dredmor getting down to floor 9 (the furthest yet for me) before I managed to set myself on fire and die in a silly fashion.

DaftPunk

16-03-2012, 11:45 AM

I switched to Sillent Hill 3,it doesn't scare me at all,even when playing it at night in dark room with high volume..

Drake Sigar

16-03-2012, 11:50 AM

The Simpsons Hit & Run. Best Simpsons game ever! Aside from The Simpsons Arcade Game of course.

NathanH

16-03-2012, 12:40 PM

Right now I am playing "Extend an algorithm for state estimation in Hidden Markov Models to general decision problems". Currently it is unplayable, needs a major patch.

Heliocentric

16-03-2012, 01:16 PM

Right now I am playing "Extend an algorithm for state estimation in Hidden Markov Models to general decision problems". Currently it is unplayable, needs a major patch.

Normally I hate entropic dlc but the Bayesian model pack really improved the unpredictability.

eRa

16-03-2012, 01:36 PM

Normally I hate entropic dlc but the Bayesian model pack really improved the unpredictability.

What? Bayesian inference is clearly superior to the golden calf that is the p value.

On topic: Neverwinter Nights 2, hooray for the large font mod! The standard script is close to unreadable on a 24" screen.

NathanH

16-03-2012, 01:36 PM

You still on the Bayesian version? I'm in the Imprecise Probability closed beta. Closed because nobody else in the world gives a shit.

Now I've moved on to a hidden object game, Find the Programming Error.

DaftPunk

16-03-2012, 03:11 PM

The Simpsons Hit & Run. Best Simpsons game ever! Aside from The Simpsons Arcade Game of course.

I didn't liked it because everything is on time. Wish there was a new simpsons game on pc (THe one from 2008).

Malawi Frontier Guard

16-03-2012, 04:27 PM

I'm having more fun with Wizorb than I thought I would. The art is amazing, it does cute things with the Breakout formula, and it's actually not ridiculously easy.

Ravelle

16-03-2012, 07:04 PM

is it something other than being a brickbreaker?

Malawi Frontier Guard

16-03-2012, 07:13 PM

For the most part yes, but you get a little town to run around in where you can listen to one-liners from villagers and donate your money to rebuild their houses.

Flint

16-03-2012, 07:47 PM

I really have no idea what I'm playing at the moment.

Recently installed System Shock 2 because I got the random interest to play it again, so I've been twiddling around with that. I'm a fairly late comer to the game and for me time's chewed away some of its potential magic but still highly enjoyable. That said, for some reason I've not got as much interest towards it as I thought I had when I installed it.

Then I bought the new Indie Royale bundle for Hard Reset and installed that this morning. Seems fine, although the controls feel a bit off and I'm really not happy with the lack of quicksave considering how challenging the game can be even on normal. Enjoyable, but lacking the major interest to really get into it as well.

On the back of my mind I somewhat feel like starting a whole new Shepard and start his story with ME1 as well. So far not done so yet but it's been on my mind for a few weeks now and I might just end up installing ME soon.

Speaking of ME, ME3 multiplayer is also something I've been spending time with recently, although not as obsessively as at first. Its slightly limited scope brought up on the RPS WIT (small number of stages, three enemy types) is starting to rear its head up in a rather unwelcome fashion but whenever I find it gets a bit less interesting I'll simply switch a class and find a whole new gameplay style to enjoy.

In short, kinda drifting between things at the moment.

Drake Sigar

16-03-2012, 07:53 PM

Recently installed System Shock 2 because I got the random interest to play it again, so I've been twiddling around with that. I'm a fairly late comer to the game and for me time's chewed away some of its potential magic but still highly enjoyable. That said, for some reason I've not got as much interest towards it as I thought I had when I installed it. Did it take much effort to get it working? I've had a lot of trouble.

Flint

16-03-2012, 08:01 PM

Did it take much effort to get it working? I've had a lot of trouble.
Not really. The cinematics do not work, widescreen resolution has to be modded in and there's some occasional twitches but it was a surprisingly hassle-free effort in general.

Tritagonist

16-03-2012, 09:14 PM

Been playing some mindless TrackMania 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackmania_2) to put a stop to my growing disappointment in Mass Effect 3.

It's not as complete as the earlier TrackMania games, which is a bit of a letdown, but it does improve on them in ways that make it fun to play. There is also something great about building your own tracks, refining them a dozen or so times to get them 'just right' - and then forget all about them in favour of a new track! Things haven't changed much since Stunts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunts_%28video_game%29) or Re-Volt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-Volt) in that regard...

alms

16-03-2012, 09:15 PM

Played a couple of hours of NEO Scavenger

I'd tried to try that as well but gave up immediately because I couldn't get the UI to scale. Either the text is too small or is so badly interpolated that it's hard to read.

Tritagonist

16-03-2012, 09:18 PM

I'd tried to try that as well but gave up immediately because I couldn't get the UI to scale. Either the text is too small or is so badly interpolated that it's hard to read.
It's quite baffling how many times that (still) happens. It pretty much ruined EVE Online for me, as I could barely play that without sitting mere inches from the monitor.

NathanH

16-03-2012, 09:39 PM

Just crashed Duels of the Planeswalkers trying to attack for 2853 damage. My laptop now hates me...

cosmicolor

16-03-2012, 11:42 PM

I've been levelling up and stuff in Blacklight: Retribution, although I do wish it wasn't quite so expensive to permanently own something. Also been on the Team Fortress 2 again.

Dr_Bobson

17-03-2012, 01:02 AM

Hopefully it doesn't go against etiquette for one's first post to be something other than an introduction. Anyhow, I've been playing Just Cause 2, a terribly silly game.

sabrage

17-03-2012, 04:08 AM

Oh, Severance... If only they gave you a map. Instead, you gave me a headache.

Ravelle

17-03-2012, 10:08 AM

Syndicate was 50 percent of on Origin and decided to take the plunge, played one co-op match and was not disappointing, nothing great but offers a good time just shooting dudes with friends.

Juan Carlo

17-03-2012, 10:46 AM

I just finished "Mass Effect 3." Holy fuck, what an ending. The game as a whole is pretty good, like more or less on the level of the first two (with all their strengths and some of their flaws), but the last 3 hours are something else entirely. Probably one of the better endings to a video game I've ever encountered (of course, I realize everyone's ending might be different, but I did every single side quest in the game, so while I could maybe get a different ending, I'm not sure if I could get a better one).

Drake Sigar

17-03-2012, 10:51 AM

I didn't liked it because everything is on time. Wish there was a new simpsons game on pc (THe one from 2008).
Yeah, the constant time trials are a pain. I usually leave missions for later and explore the Simpsons world freely to collect all the goodies. Never before has Springfield been recreated so perfectly. The 2008 game was pretty good too.

Scumbag

17-03-2012, 11:24 AM

Then I bought the new Indie Royale bundle for Hard Reset and installed that this morning. Seems fine, although the controls feel a bit off and I'm really not happy with the lack of quicksave considering how challenging the game can be even on normal. Enjoyable, but lacking the major interest to really get into it as well.

Hard Reset is really hard to both like and dislike fully. It gets hordes of monsters, fast paced shooting and lots of 'splosions quite nicely, but as you mentioned there are movement issues, the lack of quicksaves or saves bar checkpoints (one part later on I had to play 5 times in a row because of some stupid jump I kept messing up). Even something as nicely done as the graphics peeve me off. It looks lovely on a really nicely optimized engine and has a lot of atmosphere, but since its so dark plus the lighting so flashy and filtered in places everything suffers from major visual clutter after you blow something up or fire off a weapon like the electrical mortar thing.

Anyhow: Been plugging away at Duke Nukem 3D still and the first Quake, both modded up to the eyeballs (Duke with eDuke32, Highres Textures and models and DukePlus, Quake Darkplaces and the Highres models and textures). Duke certainly had some interesting level design and Quake just seems like the most bleak and dark thing outside of actual horror.

Juan Carlo

17-03-2012, 12:05 PM

Quake's terrible single player. I know alot of people disagree with me, but I was bored to tears by it even back in 1996 (or whenever it was released. I can't remember). It has good gameplay and multiplayer, maybe, but it's also ugly, bland, and lacks not only a coherent or compelling story, but also something as simple as a unified theme (WTF is up with Knights coexisting with dudes welding shotguns?).

I still defend "Doom" as being a game that's fun to play, even by modern sensibilities, just because it has excellent level design, a coherent theme, and atmosphere in spades, but I don't think "Quake" holds up well at all.

Duke Nukem 3D is still awesome, though.

Lambchops

17-03-2012, 12:18 PM

I'd like to reiterate that Stacking is absolutely lovely.

Flint

17-03-2012, 02:31 PM

Hard Reset is really hard to both like and dislike fully.

Having played the game more, I definitely agree. I could easily start listing the game's numerous flaws (lack of quicksaves, odd movement, weak weapons, overtly dark) but at the same time it's still oddly enjoyable because, especially once you unlock more weapons, it gets the shooting thing done fairly nicely. I'm pretty sure I'm never coming back to it once I finish it but I'm enjoying it enough right now to call it fun.

cosmicolor

17-03-2012, 02:49 PM

Started playing Alice Madness Returns again, I think I'm near the end of the horrible industrial area, thank god.

alms

17-03-2012, 03:34 PM

Slowly stacking gold medals in Defense Grid. Part of it I'd be tempted to call pure grind: once you've got the level figured out it's just a matter of playing it twice or thrice - but it's so quick it doesn't feel like grind and is also oddly satisfying, like I'm getting some kind of reward for finding a good solution. Others are genuinely challenging, forcing me to think out of the box. I have 62 now, at 100 I get Master Strategist, and of course I've yet to play the last level in the main campaign LOL.

Scumbag

17-03-2012, 04:29 PM

it's also ugly, bland, and lacks not only a coherent or compelling story, but also something as simple as a unified theme (WTF is up with Knights coexisting with dudes welding shotguns?).

That I disagree with, but such things come down to personal tastes. The lack of story and weird settings really added atmosphere for me. Where Doom felt like I was playing the most badass marine in the universe (through skills, not silly quips or whatnot) Quake felt like I'd entered into a realm no mortal should be. Doom felt like a silly 80s metal album or some silly teenage satanic art (not knocking it), Quake felt like someone who overdosed on Lovecraft and shrooms.
Weapon design, monster design and level design however were not up to the standards of Doom I'll admit.

Flint

17-03-2012, 05:13 PM

The real world reason for Quake's bizarro theme, of course, was how they quickly turned their medieval fantasy action game into a more typical FPS late in the process. The manual states you're jumping into a different dimension (hence why IIRC the first level of each episode has a more modern setting and a teleport device at the end).

I kinda like it. It's daft, but it's also somewhat unique.

Wooly Wugga Wugga

18-03-2012, 04:39 AM

I really want to enjoy Crusader Kings II but it just isn't engaging me and the interface is awful.

So I've been playing Homeworld again. I remember how eay I thought it was on release but I'm getting my behind handed to me on mission 5 (The Great Wastelands second mission.)

It is still a wonderful game though.

Anthile

18-03-2012, 10:19 AM

Trying to play through Cave Story+, by some dark wizardry I managed to beat the infamous MOnster X on my first attempt. Also, the remastered boss theme is just badass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPX4sMf5FJI

squareking

18-03-2012, 02:22 PM

Finally got BGTutu working -- just in time for the enhanced BG announcement. Guess I'll wait a little longer and just pick that up.

Hordriss

18-03-2012, 03:04 PM

Crusader Kings II - great fun but I have a constant nagging feeling that I'm going about things in completely the wrong way.

Danny252

18-03-2012, 03:18 PM

Crusader Kings II - great fun but I have a constant nagging feeling that I'm going about things in completely the wrong way.

So it's not just me who gets that feeling? I've yet to work out where it comes from.

Fumarole

18-03-2012, 03:28 PM

Just yesterday I started my first playthrough of The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition. I fear I'll be using the help function quite often as adventure games aren't normally my bag.

Lambchops

18-03-2012, 04:45 PM

So it's not just me who gets that feeling? I've yet to work out where it comes from.

I don't think it matters though really, getting into scrapes because of the unanticipated consequences of my actions is part of the fun for me.

Demiath

18-03-2012, 05:13 PM

I'm weirdly hooked on the Legendary difficulty mode in the old PC port of Halo 1. Last time I finished the game was during the same year it came out and at the time it was hard to forgive the performance issues and lackluster visuals compared to "true" PC games. Now that the game runs smoothly on modern systems and just looks uncontroversially old it's much easier to appreciate this impressive sandbox-esque shooter, which really reminds me a lot more of PC games like Crysis than the console FPS subgenre which it defined (but that was in the pre-Modern Warfare days, so calling Halo a specifically console-oriented shooter is almost irrelevant these days).

Sketch

18-03-2012, 06:07 PM

I always thought Halo looked really nice for a 2001 game (I know it was 2003 on PC but still). Still it's one of my favourite FPS as like you said, no matter what you think of the story the sandbox aspects and the level design is mostly pretty great and the guns and combat/AI still are relatively strong. It's colourful, not a corridor shooter, and has great online play (or did). Quite refreshing.

Anthile

18-03-2012, 10:40 PM

I tried to play Majesty 2 but the game becomes just insanely difficult very fast. At first I thought I was missing out on some crucial gameplay element but nope, quick googling revealed that the game really is just that difficult. Even worse, I read that the later missions and expansions are much harder. How anyone can play and enjoy this is utterly beyond me. It's 100% trial and error, and zero strategy. I really don't understand how this game sold enough copies for three expansions. Maybe it's a Russian thing, I don't know.
I regret spending five bucks on this and it will be the first game in a long time I will not finish.

SirKicksalot

19-03-2012, 12:44 AM

I'm trying to play Skyrim but for some reason it gets stuck on almost every loading screen... I can't figure out what's the problem.

I attempted a Crysis replay but abandoned it in the first level. I played it so much in 2007-8 I know every inch of it. That was on a system below the minimum requirements but I managed a steady 25 fps. On my current PC, which eats pretty much every other game alive, the performance is disgusting. This game was not future-proofed.

So I installed Crysis 2 and the DX11 and texture upgrades. It looks and runs so good! I might finish it again - first time was a DX9 playthrough and the visual upgrade is awesome enough to suffer through the shit story and presentation and mediocre gameplay.

I watched Saving Private Ryan and 10 minutes in I started downloading Company of Heroes. Abandoned it at the fourth mission, I'm not a fan of defending squares. I'll get back to it because I want to finish it (it's about time, 5 years later) and play the expansions.

Memph

19-03-2012, 06:32 AM

I can help you mate,i modded my game to look better then all versions of RE4.

Also the bloom mod works wonders (although can cause the game to crash if you alt-tab to desktop). I went quite mad with RE4 modding when I discovered the fantastic (but sadly mostly dead now) modding forum, having everything from the guns and character models to the capcom logo splash screen changed :) If anyone wants the high-res Leon, blooded-up zombies or anything lemmie know.

On backlog clearance...I finally gathered up some sack and played through Dead Space. I dunno what it was with this game but i'd tried to play it twice before, both times getting to stage 8 before dropping it. I'm admittedly pretty squeamish and tend to get rather immersed in games that will let me, wild imagination maybe, thus can be rather useless with shock scares and horror elements. It's been about 3 years though, so I figured I'd set it on Easy and try to plough through it, so I could then without too much shame move onto Dead Space 2 on the to-do list.
I absolutely loved it and pretty much caned it in three gripping sessions. An amazing game really. A little backtracking, but the alternative being sheer linear corridor trekking, i'm fine with that. The map I found next to useless (2 analogue sticks, 2 analogue triggers and 'rotate' is 'A'? sod off), however the blippy 'this way to mission' marker was a godsend to someone like me who tends to play via identifying the right way to go, then heading straight off in the opposite direction first to hunt for goodies. I do love hunting for goodies.

I'm usually not that slow at learning games, but it oddly all just clicked for me this time like it didn't before. First I'd figured out v-sync completely unfucks the controls, even with a pad. I'd figured out you can actually buy power nodes (DUH), so come level 8 again I was rocking some pretty hefty limb removal from hoovering up loots and hauling it all back to the shop. I'd realised that Stasis could be fully recharged frequently, for free and was really bloody handy 100% of the time when something nasty got within slashy range. I'd sussed that Kenisis was without cost, so long as you weren't chucking stuff with it, making hoovering up loot a breeze. Also I think flying in Battlefield 3 has at last taught me how to use a joypad properly. Wheras before Isaac's movement felt extremely sluggish (possibly compounded by the v-sync also) and the lack of a quick-turn ala Resi 3/4/5 bothered me greatly, what with enemies happy to spawn two feet from unconsented screaming buggery, but this time controls were practically perfect, chopping up enemies being a mostly a breeze. Also the use of 3D space was enjoyably mind-bending in places. I really loved the asteroid mining section, despite the multiple deaths it caused. Only the Beach Head meteor shooting gallery part left a sour taste to an otherwise full course of meaty shooty.
I've just started Dead Space 2 (on normal this time /flex) and loving that also, despite already wanting to play 1 again on Hard and to try some of the other weapons.

Resi 4 and 5 are back on my to-do list for re-plays now I seem to have contracted some sort of 3rd person shooting fever. I've also got a keen eye on Alan Wake. What say you folks on that one by the way? I tend to only ever buy games in sales these days, but seeing Remedy self-published it and the price isn't taking the piss i'm heavily leaning towards a purchase, even though i'm skint as Bubbles.

Oshada

19-03-2012, 08:01 AM

I'm trying to play Skyrim but for some reason it gets stuck on almost every loading screen... I can't figure out what's the problem

Are you using SkyUI and also have AMD graphics? Mine used to hang (probably due to SkyUI) but it went away after I updated to 12.1 Preview.

sabrage

19-03-2012, 09:43 AM

I've pretty much just been playing extended sessions of Galactic Attack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q42qFFCj2Bg).

DaftPunk

19-03-2012, 10:18 AM

I decided to replay Half Life 2 again,so i'm downloading it now (20 minutes left to go woot woot).

Drake Sigar

19-03-2012, 10:24 AM

I'm trying to play Skyrim but for some reason it gets stuck on almost every loading screen... I can't figure out what's the problem.

Have you tried going to your Steam games list, right clicking Skyrim, selecting properties - local files, and then verifying integrity of game cache? Every time I have problems with a Steam game I do this and it usually fixes it. Skyrim too.

Kodeen

19-03-2012, 11:08 AM

Got bored of Morrowind. I'll probably pick it up at some point again, but until then it's time for something else. Possibly Baldur's Gate.

Which brings me to MDK2 HD. I got it mainly because I wanted to assess Overhaul Games's work, and I'm a huge fanboy of MDK2 so I'm in a good place to detect the changes. Frankly, I'm not impressed. The PC's and bosses have new high-poly meshes. The levels and most of the regular enemies don't, however. The enemies have higher res textures, as do some level surfaces, but not all of them. But they ended up breaking the music in some places! The tutorials for the Kurt and Dr. Hawkings levels had sedate ambient music so that you could, you know, hear the trainer speaking. In the HD version they used some of the thumping music and it's very out of place. I also ran into a portion of the first Dr. level where there's no music at all anymore, and there should be. As far as Overhaul is concerned, I think I'll pass their BGEE and stick with the original.

Also played some Conquest of the New World over the weekend. Fairly simple for a 4x, but still fun.

DaftPunk

19-03-2012, 12:33 PM

I never liked MDK games,they just don't feel fun to play.

Voon

19-03-2012, 12:55 PM

I never liked MDK games,they just don't feel fun to play.

I was, like, 10 when I played the demo of it. Weird game, weird 16-bit colours with a nice touch on the animations. For the guy I'm playing, at least.

Drake Sigar

19-03-2012, 01:25 PM

Playing Stalker: call of kittycat or whatever. It's ok I guess.

Flint

19-03-2012, 03:57 PM

Finished Hard Reset. That was... a rather abrupt end.

Flawed game, but enjoyable enough for me to give the 'expansion' a try when it comes out (considering it's free for the game's current owners and all).

Scumbag

19-03-2012, 05:41 PM

Finished Hard Reset. That was... a rather abrupt end.
Had a feeling you may react like that, just because everyone does. It’s not really an ending per-se as the game simply just stops rather than ends. The cut scene before the credits was a bit of a tease considering what he does.
Cant help shake the feeling the story was chapter 2 of 4 rather then the whole thing.

Nalano

19-03-2012, 05:42 PM

BF3 MP and ME3 MP and kinda not liking how Origin doesn't have a built-in screenshot factory.

Jiiiiim

19-03-2012, 05:43 PM

Hard Reset was hurtling towards an ending with unseemly haste in that last chapter, though. You were completing about three objectives per room, everything was corridors, secrets were no longer actually hidden but just slightly to the left of your path...I got the feeling like they just wanted it done.

DaftPunk

19-03-2012, 06:36 PM

Can someone help me with installing skins in Half Life 2,i created thread and nada.

Memph

19-03-2012, 06:39 PM

BF3 MP and ME3 MP and kinda not liking how Origin doesn't have a built-in screenshot factory.

If you start Origin through Steam, you can screenie that way ;)

Sketch

19-03-2012, 06:41 PM

Yeah, I just rename Origin in Steam to whatever game I'm playing at the time.

Nalano

19-03-2012, 06:44 PM

If you start Origin through Steam, you can screenie that way ;)

Yo dawg - I heard you like digital distribution clients so I put a digital distribution client in your digital distribution client so you can run DRM while you run DRM.

>_>

alms

19-03-2012, 06:47 PM

I got the feeling like they just wanted it done.

Happens to a fair share of indie games actually... they're running out of cash or otherwise have a pressing need to monetize, and end up rushing it out of the door.

Flint

19-03-2012, 06:49 PM

secrets were no longer actually hidden but just slightly to the left of your path.
And in one amusing case, directly on your path.

Drake Sigar

19-03-2012, 07:30 PM

BF3 MP and ME3 MP and kinda not liking how Origin doesn't have a built-in screenshot factory.

Don't be so unreasonable, EA only had eight years to study Steam. That's like cramming for advanced calculus an hour before the exam.

TailSwallower

19-03-2012, 07:48 PM

Can you run Desura through Origin? We need to go deeper.

Althea

19-03-2012, 08:22 PM

BF3 MP and ME3 MP and kinda not liking how Origin doesn't have a built-in screenshot factory.
FRAPS is hard.

Bobtree

19-03-2012, 08:37 PM

Ok, this is going to drive me mad. The sticky threads don't stay where they're stuck! I thought I was imagining it for the longest time, but now I'm certain. They swap positions so the most recent is on top. They are not sticky enough!

Memph

19-03-2012, 09:29 PM

Yo dawg - I heard you like digital distribution clients so I put a digital distribution client in your digital distribution client so you can run DRM while you run DRM.

>_>

that's kinda lemony to me though, when steam is primarily my icq/msn/trillian list these days, so it's always running anyway and I can upload the screenies for free to my profile and caption them, along with all my others
lemonade trev, lemonade.

Kodeen

19-03-2012, 09:32 PM

Ravelle

19-03-2012, 10:11 PM

Lambchops

19-03-2012, 10:30 PM

The Next Big Thing.

Probably the best looking point and click adventure since Siberia, the dialogues and constant repeated humor is hilarious, the writing is unique and voice cast is outstanding as well.

really enjoying it so far.

You had me intrigued and then on checking I realised it was from the studio that made Runaway, which was a game that just didn't click with me at all. Granted I haven't tried any of the Runaway sequels and they may have upped their game since then but it does make me a tad wary of dropping 30 quid on it! Is there a demo available? I had a look on their website and couldn't see one.

Malawi Frontier Guard

19-03-2012, 10:35 PM

I can't stop playing Anno 2070. Please send help.

Drake Sigar

19-03-2012, 10:40 PM

You had me intrigued and then on checking I realised it was from the studio that made Runaway, which was a game that just didn't click with me at all. Granted I haven't tried any of the Runaway sequels and they may have upped their game since then but it does make me a tad wary of dropping 30 quid on it! Is there a demo available? I had a look on their website and couldn't see one.
Had the same thoughts. What few opinions I can gather on it either say it's an average addition to the adventure genre or rife with technical issues.

What was the name of that cartoony airship point & click adventure? Was going to order it a while back but I think the date slipped. A lot.

sabrage

20-03-2012, 12:57 AM

What was the name of that cartoony airship point & click adventure? Was going to order it a while back but I think the date slipped. A lot.

Captain Brawe?

SirKicksalot

20-03-2012, 01:21 AM

Have you tried going to your Steam games list, right clicking Skyrim, selecting properties - local files, and then verifying integrity of game cache? Every time I have problems with a Steam game I do this and it usually fixes it. Skyrim too.

Yes. It doesn't fix anything :(

Are you using SkyUI and also have AMD graphics? Mine used to hang (probably due to SkyUI) but it went away after I updated to 12.1 Preview.

Nvidia. No matter what I do I get infinite loading screens - sometimes from the very first loading, other times I can manage a couple of transitions until it gets stuck.
No more Skyrim for me I guess! A shame, I really enjoyed my 60 hours with it.

Heliocentric

20-03-2012, 05:39 AM

I can't stop playing Anno 2070. Please send help.

I posted a copy of Alpha Centuri through your letter box... Oh, maybe you wanted to stop playing city builders all together? No, can't help, sorry..

Ravelle

20-03-2012, 09:30 AM

You had me intrigued and then on checking I realised it was from the studio that made Runaway, which was a game that just didn't click with me at all. Granted I haven't tried any of the Runaway sequels and they may have upped their game since then but it does make me a tad wary of dropping 30 quid on it! Is there a demo available? I had a look on their website and couldn't see one.

I've never played the Runway series so I wouldn't know if it had improved yes or no but they have a demo up on Steam.

coldvvvave

20-03-2012, 01:18 PM

FRAPS is hard.
Not freeware.

Althea

20-03-2012, 01:19 PM

Not freeware.
You don't need to pay for it. Use it in its free version, convert the .bmp files yourself. Works fine.

Anthile

20-03-2012, 01:21 PM

You don't need to pay for it. Use it in its free version, convert the .bmp files yourself. Works fine.

Or use imgur, which will convert it automagically.

alms

20-03-2012, 01:58 PM

The Next Big Thing

Their new title, Yesterday, should have been released recently on Steam. I'm pretty curious about Pendulo's titles, but the price tag is out of my range, will wait for some sale.

Yesterday I've spent a couple of quality hours with Avadon. After checking out the WIT on RPS, I fired it up with very little convinction (in recent years I've really had a lot of trouble getting myself to stick to any RPG for a reasonable amount of time), but something in it won me over pretty soon. Looking forward to playing more of it later today.

Ravelle

20-03-2012, 03:11 PM

Their new title, Yesterday, should have been released recently on Steam. I'm pretty curious about Pendulo's titles, but the price tag is out of my range, will wait for some sale.

Yesterday I've spent a couple of quality hours with Avadon. After checking out the WIT on RPS, I fired it up with very little convinction (in recent years I've really had a lot of trouble getting myself to stick to any RPG for a reasonable amount of time), but something in it won me over pretty soon. Looking forward to playing more of it later today.

It'a been on steam for a while now, and I grabbed it during a sale, believe it was 5 euro at the time.

simast

20-03-2012, 06:32 PM

Just finish playing Civilization V. CIV V is on of my favorite strategy game, a must try for historian gamer
You can't be serious..

Nalano

20-03-2012, 06:38 PM

You can't be serious..

Well, the ubiquitous civilopedia was always chock full of cute factoids, but as a simulation? bahahahaha.

But then, go to their forums and you see people complaining that they haven't added Wallachia or some other tiny medieval European state when, y'know, there's a whole world out there.

Drake Sigar

20-03-2012, 09:39 PM

vinraith

20-03-2012, 09:41 PM

You can't be serious..

Indeed. I love Civ and all (well, Civ 4 anyway) but any element of "history" is a thin coat of paint and little else.

Casimir Effect

20-03-2012, 10:14 PM

Ah crap, Human Revolution was good. Really, really good. Although the boss fights were silly at least there was always an easy way to beat them, and I would have loved it if all your energy cells regenerated so you could play with the abilities more, but these things are easy to ignore because the game does so much right. I only hope as much love and care to the level design is put into any sequels.
Still got the Missing Link DLC to play but I think I'll try to focus on finally playing Company of Heroes for now.

Scumbag

20-03-2012, 10:55 PM

airtekh

20-03-2012, 11:01 PM

Stalker: Call of Kitkat is starting to grow on me. I still haven't had much experience with the thing it's famous for (atmosphere) yet because I've stayed above ground doing missions against bandits. Tomorrow I'll check out one of the chasms and see if I can find any loot. These constant anomalies worry me, I'm not sure if I can navigate my way through, or there's some sort of trick which allows safe passage. Maybe I need certain items for certain types of anomalies? I dunno.

Make sure you're throwing bolts (default '6' on the keyboard IIRC) to set off anomalies so you can find out their location and plot a path around them.

The most advanced artifact detector (the 'Svarog') can actually display the location of anomalies (as well as artifacts), making it a piece of cake to navigate around them; but you can only get your hands on one mid-to-late game, after you do a bunch of specific quests.

---

I've started the lovely Dustforce, which straight away reminds me of Super Meat Boy. It's slower paced than SMB, but it's in the same kind of score-chasing vein. Also like SMB, the art and soundtrack are fantastic.

The only gripe I have with it is the lack of levels. Most of the levels are locked off until you obtain a perfect score on the early ones, and if you don't make the effort to unlock them, then you very quickly run out of levels to play.

I'm making progress in Fallout: New Vegas too, which is very enjoyable so far. Maybe it's a bug, but I seem to have two companions following me around, when the game apparently limits you to one. I'm not complaining though, the extra hired gun is coming in very handy!

eRa

21-03-2012, 12:19 AM

Fallout: New Vegas[/B] too, which is very enjoyable so far. Maybe it's a bug, but I seem to have two companions following me around, when the game apparently limits you to one. I'm not complaining though, the extra hired gun is coming in very handy!

One human and one non-human companion are allowed, if I remember correctly (ED-E and Boone can become horribly overpowered).

I just discovered Terraria, got loads of questions but it's pretty enjoyable so far.

Sketch

21-03-2012, 01:29 AM

sabrage

21-03-2012, 02:16 AM

I've started the lovely Dustforce, which straight away reminds me of Super Meat Boy. It's slower paced than SMB, but it's in the same kind of score-chasing vein. Also like SMB, the art and soundtrack are fantastic.

I forgot about this game! I was going to wait for the inevitable bundle release but it looks like exactly what I'm in the mood for. Are you playing with the keyboard?

icupnimpn2

21-03-2012, 02:30 AM

There is something terribly wrong with Dustforce on my PC. It runs sloooooow and the framerate stutters. No such problem with Super Meat Boy and most other 2D platformers. Would like to like the game.

Bleekill

21-03-2012, 03:44 AM

You progress in Terraria a lot faster by playing in a group, solo it can get pretty tedious.

Voon

21-03-2012, 04:41 AM

These constant anomalies worry me, I'm not sure if I can navigate my way through, or there's some sort of trick which allows safe passage. Maybe I need certain items for certain types of anomalies? I dunno.

Nah, just throw bolts or get an anomaly detector. The former is much more effective if you want to know whether or not the anomalies are in front of you. The latter detects anomalies like how a Geiger counter does and gets better each time you found yourself a newer model. You need it to find yourself some artefacts in anomalies.

Juan Carlo

21-03-2012, 04:48 AM

I'm nearing the end of "Drakensang: The Dark Eye." The writing is awful and the world is generic, but boy do I love this game more than most RPGs I've played in recent memory. It's the stat system, I think. It's been ages since an RPG actually required me to do math. This game just tapped into that weird, OCD, "MUST LEVEL CHARACTER ONE MORE TIME!" compulsion that most good RPGs will give you.

Plus I'm playing as a rogue/wizard hybrid who specializes in fencing, and it's awesome. RPGs need to have more rogue/wizard hybrids in them.

Memph

21-03-2012, 06:48 AM

I very much enjoy Terraria, although I found when I played it there was so many obstacles to overcome to actually do what I want. Like to get this ore, I need this pickaxe, which you can only get through beating X, the weapon you use to do some comes from Y. It was quite overwhelming, though I hear it could have changed.

Much was added with 1.1, but the game stayed the same. Gradual progress via gathering, then crafting, to do more gathering is basically the whole point to it. Once you have the top ore's armor tools and weapons, that's pretty much it unless you like to build, build and build some more. Multiplayer really does make the game tbh.

NecroKnight

21-03-2012, 06:55 AM

I'm revisiting Stalker: Call of Pripayt, doing side missions I didn't finish in the first run.

Zephro

21-03-2012, 10:03 AM

Indeed. I love Civ and all (well, Civ 4 anyway) but any element of "history" is a thin coat of paint and little else.

I dunno you learn quite a lot of good history playing Civ. Sometimes I'd reckon more so than really anal things like Paradox games. History is about process more than fact and Civ does communicate quite a few processes and tensions that are important throughout history.

If anything Civ4/5 teaches you wars can and will break out over scarce resources. Which is something more fundamental to understand than the names of the duchies and grand duchies in the HRE.

This argument has been occurring a lot lately with Michael Gove's dicking about with the history curriculum.

Anyway, this week I has mostly been playing Dwarf Fortress, lots and lots of Dwarf Fortress.

Althea

21-03-2012, 10:18 AM

I very much enjoy Terraria, although I found when I played it there was so many obstacles to overcome to actually do what I want. Like to get this ore, I need this pickaxe, which you can only get through beating X, the weapon you use to do some comes from Y. It was quite overwhelming, though I hear it could have changed.
It hasn't.

I burnt out really, really quick on it. The most fun I had was before I got to all the lava and stuff. After that I just couldn't be bothered.

airtekh

21-03-2012, 10:27 AM

One human and one non-human companion are allowed, if I remember correctly (ED-E and Boone can become horribly overpowered).

Nice to know. My character is melee-focused, so I like having those two to soften targets up before I get in range. :D

I forgot about this game! I was going to wait for the inevitable bundle release but it looks like exactly what I'm in the mood for. Are you playing with the keyboard?

No I'm using my 360 pad; I like using a pad for 2D platformers. You can rebind almost everything in the options screen though, so it seems it will accept any old controller.

Ravelle

21-03-2012, 10:39 AM

Anno 2070 Struggling through the World Event, mission 2. Getting them sushi was already difficult and now since I have the Eco Engineer tier they demand Pasta and have to find a new Island that has that fertility.

Eve Online Just started out and doing some mining and beginning missions, I already ran in to A**holes that fly by and steal your jettisoned cargo. Some people are really just rotten on the inside.
Also I ran in to some NPC pirates that blew my ship apart because I wasn't able to warp fast enough, luckily I insured my vessel, but still had to repurchase all my equipment.

The Next Big Thing Completed it, took me 7 hours and 13 minutes according to the stats, not too short not too long, great game.

Malawi Frontier Guard

21-03-2012, 12:33 PM

Anno 2070 Struggling through the World Event, mission 2. Getting them sushi was already difficult and now since I have the Eco Engineer tier they demand Pasta and have to find a new Island that has that fertility.

If you think the second mission is hard, I have bad news for you...
I just now finished the third one and spent way more hours on it than I'd like to admit. Talk about jumping into the deep end.

crazy horse

21-03-2012, 01:20 PM

Crusader Kings 2: Playing a good deal of this, basically it is a child assasination simulator. I really should wait till they release the inevitable patched expansion before spending too much time with it.

Serious Sam BFE: Seriously.

Hard Reset: Lasers and explosions!

Xcom UFO Defense: All this hullabaloo about new Xcom games has made me pick a copy of the original on Gamers Gate and boldy throw myself into veteran campaign where I've forbidden myself to save/reload. It is incredibly fun seeing the Earth's last hope get torn to shreds by plasma time after time, really it is. I'm pretty sure I'm going to win in the end. Unless I don't.

I've got Civ 5 and Shogun Total War sitting on my steam account without me being able to bring myself to play them. I've spent inordinate amounts of time with the games in both those series but in these newest editions something is just... mising. The fun factor is just no longer there for me. Luckily there's loads of shiny new things play instead.

agentorange

21-03-2012, 02:22 PM

Xcom UFO Defense: All this hullabaloo about new Xcom games has made me pick a copy of the original on Gamers Gate and boldy throw myself into veteran campaign where I've forbidden myself to save/reload. It is incredibly fun seeing the Earth's last hope get torn to shreds by plasma time after time, really it is. I'm pretty sure I'm going to win in the end. Unless I don't.

Beware that the Gamers Gate version may have the bug where all difficulties revert to the easy setting.

Ravelle

21-03-2012, 02:31 PM

If you think the second mission is hard, I have bad news for you...
I just now finished the third one and spent way more hours on it than I'd like to admit. Talk about jumping into the deep end.

Oh dear, in what aspect is it so hard? :o

Malawi Frontier Guard

21-03-2012, 03:33 PM

You need 5000 Eco Executives and repair three islands, at least one of which will almost inevitably be settled by another faction. In addition, the event will be over pretty soon.

Don't force yourself, though. You don't have to do it.

Ravelle

21-03-2012, 03:41 PM

It took me forever to get Eco Engi's and I don't achieved the 750 requirement yet, 5000 seems impossible for a next tier and room you have on your island.

crazy horse

21-03-2012, 04:31 PM

Beware that the Gamers Gate version may have the bug where all difficulties revert to the easy setting.

Yup, I'm using a modded version that fixes that and a few other bugs. UFO extender I believe it's called. It's on veteran alright. I can unload a whole truckload of plasma and alien grenades at a terror unit and it just stands there paitently waiting for me to hit end turn.

Tikey

21-03-2012, 05:13 PM

You mean that my last x-com playtrough was on easy?

Still I regret nothing.

OpT1mUs

21-03-2012, 07:13 PM

I finally managed to make my self stop playing only LoL and to get into a SP game.

And that SP game is S.P.A.Z., such a fun little game, would recommend everyone to at least try it. It was on steam daily deal the other day, for like 2 euros.

Scumbag

21-03-2012, 08:58 PM

Ravelle

21-03-2012, 09:04 PM

Call of Cthulhu: Dark corners of the earth. God-damnit game! Why do you pulse between great stuff and really, really bad? Think its funny that every-time someone watches me play it they think its some really bad game you find on the budget stands in supermarkets.

The part where I stopped playing is the part you have to hide and shove closets in front of doors, that stuff is just too nerve wrecking for me.

ChiYeon

22-03-2012, 06:14 AM

currently playing sevensouls Online.. the Old Martial empires way back 2010... :D

Tikey

22-03-2012, 01:05 PM

The part where I stopped playing is the part you have to hide and shove closets in front of doors, that stuff is just too nerve wrecking for me.

I think that's the best part of the game. As creepy and tense as in the book.

Heliocentric

22-03-2012, 02:16 PM

Finished ME3, chose the middle ending, consider the ending really happy as long as you look at the big picture.

Gonna go read all the stuff I was avoiding about it now.

Krikey!

22-03-2012, 06:02 PM

These days I'm replaying Wasteland (though I haven't played for a few days due to heavy workload). Stuck in the abandoned mining shaft, with party members injured, and 10 lizards chasing me. It's tedious to run away, but the feeling of being relentlessly pursued by a bunch of creatures that want to rip my guys' faces off is awesome.

DaftPunk

22-03-2012, 06:58 PM

I am currently in a Half Life mood so i am playing some Half Life 2,i came to Ravenholm part :o

Heliocentric

22-03-2012, 09:37 PM

Ooh, read about endings, now I wanna change my pick :P

Looks like I got indoctrinated.

Ravelle

22-03-2012, 10:09 PM

Ooh, read about endings, now I wanna change my pick :P

Looks like I got indoctrinated.

At my first play through I was too confused of it all and walked right in to the Synthesis Beam, forgetting what I was suppose to be doing. Damn Indoctrination.

MD!

23-03-2012, 12:16 AM

Picked up Portal 2 when it was cheap, and I'm enjoying it! Seems very much a Valve-style focus-tested-rollercoaster game, but there's nothing wrong with a bit of that as part of a balanced diet. I've already played it for more hours than I intended to over the last couple of days.

Tritagonist

23-03-2012, 12:18 AM

Played a bit of Kingdom Rush (http://www.kingdomrush.com/). It's surprisingly nice and manages to stand out among all the thousands of tower defence games flooding the online-Flash and iOS market these days.

http://i.imgur.com/2cG2A.jpg

RPS had an article about it (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/14/idly-tower-kingdom-rush/)a few weeks back.

dollyue

23-03-2012, 12:56 AM

never tried about the game seven souls so currently downloading the game..i'll tried if it will be my game for now..hmmm coz I played aion but i stop for some reason..

Jwoozy

23-03-2012, 05:57 AM

Just finished the Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai campaign as Clan Tsu. I almost dropped my pre-order for this game, but now I'm glad I didn't and I'm excited to try again as a Shogunate loyalist tomorrow. Literally beat the game on my first try, although I didn't get the best ending, which was really surprising since I've still yet to crack RotS and I have a long history of heart-breaking defeats as Uesugi in the original campaign.

Jwoozy

23-03-2012, 06:03 AM

Althea

23-03-2012, 03:56 PM

The company/guy/whatever of Faerie Solitaire can go fuck themselves.

I can't stop playing it.

NathanH

23-03-2012, 04:06 PM

Haha, I am steering clear of that, I know how much time I can sink into solitaire games.

vurogj

23-03-2012, 06:53 PM

I''e finally been bitten by Realm of the Mad God, and have dropped some money on the deserving devs. Well played, it took a while, but you got me. So much so that I've not even investigated the SPAZ update that's waiting for me to try out.

Flint

23-03-2012, 07:04 PM

Just got Darksiders from the gamersgate promo and gave it a little play. It's so soulreavery it's actually a bit weird (in a pleasant way).

Ravelle

23-03-2012, 08:01 PM

Just got Darksiders from the gamersgate promo and gave it a little play. It's so soulreavery it's actually a bit weird (in a pleasant way).

I have to get back on that, iirc I got stuck in one of those arena chambers.

Vandelay

23-03-2012, 08:08 PM

Funny, I've gone back to playing Darksiders just today, after having only played it for about 30 mins shortly after buying it in a Steam sale.

Being a PC only player, I've not played many of the games that it is generally compared to (Zelda, Soul Reaver, etc.), but I very much enjoyed the hour or so I had with it.

Also started Mass Effect the first again. Believe it or not, I still have yet to play the second one, let alone the third. I bought it a while ago and have been meaning to replay the first to have a save game (as an aside, this trend of allowing you to use save games from the previous game is nice, but incredibly annoying.) Just coming to the end of the Citadel section and I think it might be a little better than I remember.

SirKicksalot

24-03-2012, 01:48 AM

The Diablo 3 beta. First playthrough as barbarian. It's incredibly fun and very pretty. The combat is very satisfying! It took me and a friend 90 minutes to finish it. I'll play with every class. It's obvious that this is something I can play for hundreds of hours...

Kodeen

24-03-2012, 04:05 AM

Just played a couple more levels of MDK2 HD. What a rushed, glitchy, cash-in hack job. I mean, the audio is near completely broken, I don't even see why they would have messed with that portion.

I'm very unimpressed with Beamdog/Overhaul.

ChiYeon

24-03-2012, 07:07 AM

Heliocentric

24-03-2012, 09:32 AM

here comes the game that everyone is talking about.. ;__;

Better this than they talk about the ME3 ending(s). Finished Deus Ex 3,it's fun but the game on peaked in Detroit, the choices felt substantial and you overpowering gangsters made more sense than overpowering a secret military.
*Taps on shoulder, punches in face*
Speaking of stealth... Fresh out of getting annoyed by ME3 my fiancée has just started Deus Ex 3, SHE IS A COLD BLOODED MURDERER. But she cannot be bothered sneaking, vending machines(!) and her upgraded combat rifle are the weapons of choice.

Memph

24-03-2012, 09:35 AM

I've been playing a bit of everything lately. Can't seem to settle myself into anything.
A bit of Dead Space 2, restarted Resi 5. Done the first few bosses of Ys, bit of Lara Croft GoL co-op, interspersed with some BF3 (which still either has the tendancy to be tonnes of fun or thoroughly fuck me off like nothing else). Plus I had a go at starting Tomb Raider: Underworld after finishing and loving Anniversary and Legend - but that first level is boring as chuff.

I mostly wanna play Deus Ex HR after finally picking it up in the Steam sale, but that goddam stuttering bug makes it impossible to play comfortably.

Memph

24-03-2012, 09:39 AM

Funny, I've gone back to playing Darksiders just today, after having only played it for about 30 mins shortly after buying it in a Steam sale.

Ohh forgot this, i'd re-started Darksiders on apocolyptic, thinking i'd mastered it after my past, very enjoyable playthroughs long ago on normal on easy and could go for the achievement. Turns out I suck. Those big blue demon things just hand me my arse.

Voon

24-03-2012, 09:50 AM

Just got Darksiders from the gamersgate promo and gave it a little play. It's so soulreavery it's actually a bit weird (in a pleasant way).

Now, you're making me want to finish that shit for the bossfights! Oh, I love the bossfights there. Shame for the combat, though. Felt like it's a bit bland when I'm just mashing away one button without much challenge with anything else beyond bosses

Juan Carlo

24-03-2012, 10:50 AM

Two Worlds 1. It's maddenly inconsistent.

Some stuff is brilliant:

-the crafting system which allows you to combine weapons

-the alchemy system

-the weapon system in general. I like how different weapons are best suited to different enemies, so you have to keep like 3 on you at all times.

-fighting with spears!

-Neat armor aesthetics. Kind of an asian/arabian knights combo, which looks cool

It has way too many flaws for me to love it, though:

-Every bloody NPC in the world has a unique name so there is no easy way to tell who has quests and who doesn't unless you run around clicking on everyone. A HUGE annoyance. They should have only named the important NPCs.

-Glitchy level design. I can't count the number of times I've gotten stuck completely on the horse and had to reload

-The quest interface is terrible. Just tiny little dots on a huge map, and on top of it they don't explain everything you are supposed to do so you pretty much need to use a faq (for example, to initiate one of the main quests needed to complete the game, you have to visit a random unrelated town and start doing random quests until you get a key that unlocks the thing you need. The quest journal tells you nothing about this, so I assume the developers just expected people to stumble upon this in the midst of the scores of other towns and hundreds of available quests?)

-Enemy AI is of the terrible "everything within a 100 yard radius just hones in on your character" variety, so you will have like 50 random animals chasing you everywhere

-Voice work and writing are awful, and the storyline ranges from functional (the main quest) to dull as dishwater (most of the side quests). At least it has a sense of humor, though, which if not very funny, is kind of appreciated.

I plan on sticking it out, though. It's not all bad, really, just not very good. Plus, I want to play Two Worlds 2 (Which I won in the xmas sale) so I feel like I have to finish this first.

NathanH

24-03-2012, 11:13 AM

Two Worlds is really inept, but ok. I had to stop when I reached a point where all enemies were either trivial or impossible, and it was getting boring.

Tritagonist

24-03-2012, 11:54 AM

Althea

24-03-2012, 11:57 AM

It's better than Warcraft simply for being German and having a Dynamedion soundtrack.

Tritagonist

24-03-2012, 12:10 PM

For some reason there wasn't any audio during the intro movie, so I might have missed out on the most dramatic piece, but the normal soundtrack has indeed been good so far.

As for the creators being German, that reminds me I never finished Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes (http://store.steampowered.com/app/46450/). I got the German version because, if I remember correctly, the English version didn't have any voice-acting. However, playing it in German meant I probably misunderstood or simply missed a good number of the jokes - which was probably the game's main selling point.

NathanH

24-03-2012, 12:37 PM

All this SpellForce talk has made me start playing the first game again. So that will take me a month or so to get through. It is deliciously huge and slow-paced. Unfortunately I am a bit too good at it now, and Hard isn't hard enough. At least I can have the fun of destroying all the "OMG you can't beat this army" armies, like the ridiculous pack of orcs in the Shiel. And, of course, victory is all the sweeter if it comes with the screams of 50 dying elf workers...

Flint

24-03-2012, 12:45 PM

Now, you're making me want to finish that shit for the bossfights! Oh, I love the bossfights there. Shame for the combat, though. Felt like it's a bit bland when I'm just mashing away one button without much challenge with anything else beyond bosses
I don't know, I kinda like the combat. It is rather simple (though you can make it fairly detailed I'd imagine if you bought all the different moves and so forth) but it's got a nice power and strength to it. A bit buttonmashy but fun buttonmashy.

Really enjoying this game, and now getting the Zelda references that everyone keeps mentioning as well (the Cathedral felt like I was playing a slightly more glum Zelda, complete with the boomerang). So much more fun than I expected, the screenies and videos etc really do not do it justice. Derivative as all hell but I adore the games it copies so I don't find it a problem at all. Love the acting as well, Mark Hamill does a brilliant job as usual (and War's actor sounds quite a bit like Simon Templeman, further making it feel like a LoK game).

Sproutmask

24-03-2012, 05:01 PM

Hammering through ME3 at the moment, trying to get to the ending so that I can see what all the fuss is about and finally join in the conversation that seems to be involving about 97% of the internet at the moment... just started on Thessia and enjoying it immensely so far on a paragon playthrough with a soldier manshep (oh Revenant machine gun, shall I count the ways I love you?) and my renegade sentinel ladyshep is queued up and ready. Even the multiplayer is really quite nice, albeit I'm a bit useless. Which reminds me, I just need to get something off my chest. Arrrgghhhh! Stupid space bar with everything bound to it, stupid narrow FOV and stupid sticky cover making me look a pillock when I finally try to get out of the way of the husk that's got round the side of me and started biting my ear!

NecroKnight

24-03-2012, 09:13 PM

Yesterday, Pendulo Studios new adventure game.

Ravelle

24-03-2012, 09:27 PM

Yesterday, Pendulo Studios new adventure game.

Also this, not far in though but so far I'm missing the constant talking a lot at every action and interaction. :(

I also started Armored Core V.

Juan Carlo

25-03-2012, 12:41 AM

One complaint I should mention is that my Shogun 2 install on Steam is now 20 fucking gigs large. Considering you really want an SSD to cut down on the ridiculous load times that's a pretty expensive chunk of HDD real estate.

Both "Empire" and "Napolean" are also 20 gigs each.

"Medieval 2" with the expansion is 16 gigs.

Total War games are annoying when it comes to space. I can never justify keeping them all on my machine at once either. If you have every game in the series installed, it's nearly 100 gigs.

Drake Sigar

25-03-2012, 12:23 PM

Continuing my adventures on Stalker: Call of Primyat. Had to form an elite team from people I'd worked beside in the past. I think it's pretty cool how none, all, or some of the NPC's you work with can die on these missions depending on your performance and sheer luck. Most games of this type would probably script a sequence where everyone except the player is killed in an immediate ambush to cover up any AI or game engine limitations, or just make them invincible.

It was kinda like the ending of Jedi Knight 2 where you suddenly find yourself with a team of Jedi fighting Dark Jedi, and after the chaotic whirling flash of saber on saber you could end up entering the next room alone, with a partner, or with a full team of battle-hardened Jedi Knights. This freedom doesn't always work due to the random elements (friendly fire!), but when it does... the feeling is like no other. I must have replayed that JK2 level a hundred times.

squirrelfanatic

25-03-2012, 09:06 PM

Nalano

25-03-2012, 09:18 PM

Alpha Protocol. Damn it, I hate this sadistic russian Popstar fellow. I keep running out of ammo for my pistol and when I use my assault rifle, he calls in his mooks to distract me / beat me up. And don't even get me started on melee. Frustrating.

Very satisfying when you do get him, tho.

My BF3 clanmates discovered that there's more to tournament conquest than just shooting first and shooting straightest. They initially reacted by making more complicated and convoluted strategies. That only made things worse.

In the meanwhile, I've been playing KoA. I don't know why. It's such a no-brainer an MMO player can run through it in their sleep. I suppose it's a holding pattern 'til Civ5 gets religion or something.

Anthile

25-03-2012, 09:27 PM

Casimir Effect

25-03-2012, 10:07 PM

Just played the introductory mission of SpellForce 2: Shadow Wars (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spellforce_2) that I picked up during this week's sale on Steam. It reminds me a bit of Warcraft III with the hero units, building simplified bases, etc. I can't really get too excited about yet another fictional world of Dark Elves, Knights of the Light, Dragons and The Evil Shadow, so I'm hoping the characters will make it interesting.
The races are typical fantasy schlok but the world is a bit different, what with being sundered into pieces meaning only certain ones are connected by these magical portals which are not well understood and are a focus of the expansion pack. The aspect of the game I always found stood out was how your character isn't a force for good (or evil) for once - they are entirely selfish and will use anyone/anything to help them achieve the Main Quest.

Also you get given your own map/piece-of-land to rule as a stronghold, which is great fun.

NathanH

25-03-2012, 10:40 PM

The plot of the first SpellForce seems even more hilariously stupid every time I play. Love it. Just beaten Stoneblade mountain, so the next few maps will be trivial in comparison. I think I'll restrict myself from recruiting cheesy Druids for the undead missions. Until the Mosaic, that is...

Casimir Effect

25-03-2012, 10:52 PM

Elves were my favourite to play as in SF1. Those archers upgraded with freezing arrows along with the upgraded mages and druids could wreck everyone's day. Then the missions where you get elves and dwarves together - best of ALL worlds. Never understood the plot myself - always felt like there was a scene missing at the end.

If you find SF1 too easy why not just do the expansions? I always found BoW pretty damn hard, especially that refugee mission.
And fuck the Mosaics. All of them.

NathanH

25-03-2012, 11:03 PM

I've only played the later missions of the Order of Dawn once, and they were pretty challenging, so using a relatively weak build (assuming Earth magic isn't going to stop being crap and start being awesome at some point) and playing around with units I don't usually use should be good. I remember there is a mission when you have to get past like 30 ice elementals with their multiple-target ice bolts that was spectacularly hard. Also I love the Leafshade/Shiel/Wildland Pass missions with the enormous orc fortifications and firestarter armies. It's just the undead bit in the middle that I never liked so much, but hopefully avoiding druids will spice things up a bit.

The mosaic in Breath of Winter was great. There are just about enough resources on the map to beat it. Just about. As long as you don't lose any units in the main quest. And your avatar is minmaxed. I seem to recall ending the fight with no resources, no soldiers, and about 3 workers.

Casimir Effect

25-03-2012, 11:22 PM

I've finished SF1 twice but in the latter half of the game I do tend to use my avatar to take out half the enemy camps before triggering my monument, just because it makes things easier and quicker. Otherwise the later missions can be challenging because the Dark Elves have some nasty tricks and the Kithar can give you a beating. Petrify always annoyed the hell out of me but I have a feeling it'd be meh against then enemy, seeing as taking out a single little enemy is useless and it won't effect high-level enemies. Otherwise Earth Magic has some decent offense spells like the one that throws a volley of rocks.
The undead bit with the elves was just a weird enemy choice seeing as the game recognises damage types so arrows do little against skeletons, and yet with elves that is what you mostly have. Great mission though, and I always enjoyed some of the dwarf missions too. There was one where it's a big fight against undead with a large, many-tiered base in the west and then there's a portal to another area on the same map so it's jsut your avatar and rune companions for a boss fight. Favourite SF1 mission will always be the Godwall though.

I had to come back to the mosaic in BoW later on after getting it to the final stage the first time round (my army was annihilated in doing so). Luckily the resources regenerate so it was just a case of crafting myself the perfect army for the job of higher-level troops. Still was a right bastard of a fight.

Sketch

26-03-2012, 12:33 AM

I'm starting Fallout 1 for the first time ever, pretty much right now. I'm going to record it with a voice over, not sure if anyone here would be interested by it, but they wanted to see a guy fumble his way through a game I can post it here too.

Actually scrub that, Fallout 1 is incredibly hard to get working properly with Fraps, so I think I'll be doing Dead Space 2 instead.

vinraith

26-03-2012, 02:56 AM

I finished Assassins Creed: Revelations. It was a nice end to Ezio's narrative, and for the most part was a solid if typical game in the series, but that tower defense game really does blow. Usually it's avoidable, but even having to play it twice is two times too many.

With that done, I decided to give Space Pirates and Zombies another try. I bounced off it over the holidays, as it was far arcadier than I anticipated, but coming back to it with a more open mind I find I'm enjoying it. I've no idea how long it'll take to get bored, it does come across as somewhat shallow, but for now it's a nice little time waster.

Finally, I'm still playing a fair bit of Borderlands co-op. We're making quick progress through our second playthrough and enjoying the new loot and revisiting places dimly remembered from our original playthrough. Good stuff.

Serenegoose

26-03-2012, 03:12 AM

I finished Assassins Creed: Revelations. It was a nice end to Ezio's narrative, and for the most part was a solid if typical game in the series, but that tower defense game really does blow. Usually it's avoidable, but even having to play it twice is two times too many.

This is pretty much what I thought. Also, even though it wouldn't have fit the plot, I'd also have liked if the settings of Brotherhood and Revelations had been reversed, since Brotherhood is the more expansive game - I don't feel you really get to explore Istanbul, whereas Rome is similar enough to the other italian cities in AC2 that you don't need to see it all. The tower defence game really was poop.

Demiath

26-03-2012, 03:19 AM

The wonderfully weird "Vista exclusive" release of Halo 2, on Legendary difficulty. It's funny how a little bit of context goes a long way; the game was greeted by a loud "meh" by the PC community back in 2007 but after having recently re-played Gearbox's port of Halo 1 I'm amazed by the improved graphics, better level design and more precision-based shooting etc. Also, while 3D Vision functionality is imperfect (as might be expected, since the game certainly wasn't built for it and thus relies on NVIDIA's intermittently impressive 3D backwards compatibility) but truly adds to the experience, especially during cutscenes and big set pieces.

vinraith

26-03-2012, 03:29 AM

This is pretty much what I thought. Also, even though it wouldn't have fit the plot, I'd also have liked if the settings of Brotherhood and Revelations had been reversed, since Brotherhood is the more expansive game - I don't feel you really get to explore Istanbul, whereas Rome is similar enough to the other italian cities in AC2 that you don't need to see it all. The tower defence game really was poop.

Yeah, it was a great setting, beautifully rendered, but underused. That bit in (spoiler, highlight to reveal)Cappadocia was neat, though.

Voon

26-03-2012, 03:52 AM

Alpha Protocol. Damn it, I hate this sadistic russian Popstar fellow. I keep running out of ammo for my pistol and when I use my assault rifle, he calls in his mooks to distract me / beat me up. And don't even get me started on melee. Frustrating.

Spike his drugs by getting Steven to do it. Intel section in the Safehouse, if you've met him already in Taiwan. If you're haven't done so already and got yourself stuck in the boss fight with Brayko, sprint around till he stops and chainshot that bastard in the face. Don't try to do it melee, it's practically suicide.

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Monster Hunter Tri online and I took down three monsters in a row in the arena with a buddy. Barroth, Uragaan and Deviljho. 'Tis glorious.

squirrelfanatic

26-03-2012, 05:40 AM

Spike his drugs by getting Steven to do it. Intel section in the Safehouse, if you've met him already in Taiwan. If you're haven't done so already and got yourself stuck in the boss fight with Brayko, sprint around till he stops and chainshot that bastard in the face. Don't try to do it melee, it's practically suicide.That's sound advice. I find it amazing that you actually can do stuff like spiking his coke. Unfortunately, Moscow is the first mission that I chose to do after the introductory levels. Also, I started as a Rookie and invested... all of my points into Stealth. And yes, melee is not a good idea with this guy. At least I found out that he stops to catch a breath every now and then if you keep running away from him, so this is what I did most of the time. ;)

The thing is that I nearly got him down (maybe 10% health left) but then couldn't punch through his regenerating armor (the grenades weren't enough either). I'll give it another shot tonight.

ZamFear

26-03-2012, 07:02 AM

Since you're running a stealth build, use Shadow Operative when he starts chasing you. It causes his AI to derp. :)

Jams O'Donnell

26-03-2012, 09:54 AM

I have finally got round to giving Bastion a proper go. I'd played the first level a couple of times before, but never really sunk my teeth into it. Goodness, it's a lovely game.

Heliocentric

26-03-2012, 10:12 AM

I have finally got round to giving Bastion a proper go. I'd played the first level a couple of times before, but never really sunk my teeth into it. Goodness, it's a lovely game.

Mechanically its a little trite, unlocking upgrades etc, but for a story/first play? Its a beautiful thing.

skitfarlig

26-03-2012, 10:35 AM

I just started playing Portal 2 Co-op with a friend.

I think it's really amazing, but.. My friend is so stupid at times!

Often it doesn't feel like we are working together, sometimes it actually feels as he is working against me. I have to do everything, tell him where to put portals, explain what everything does even though he's played through both games. So now I need to convince another (smarter)friend to buy Portal 2, so I can fully enjoy the co-op experience! :p

squirrelfanatic

26-03-2012, 02:02 PM

Since you're running a stealth build, use Shadow Operative when he starts chasing you. It causes his AI to derp. :)In a helpful way? Thanks anyway, I'll definitely try this.

kataras

26-03-2012, 02:20 PM

Since you're running a stealth build, use Shadow Operative when he starts chasing you. It causes his AI to derp. :)

Yeah, when he 's about to charge you, run behind something, cloak and he will stop his charge. Then shoot him in the face. It frustrated the hell out of me before I read this approach somewhere.

Voon

26-03-2012, 02:30 PM

That's sound advice. I find it amazing that you actually can do stuff like spiking his coke. Unfortunately, Moscow is the first mission that I chose to do after the introductory levels. Also, I started as a Rookie and invested... all of my points into Stealth. And yes, melee is not a good idea with this guy. At least I found out that he stops to catch a breath every now and then if you keep running away from him, so this is what I did most of the time. ;)

The thing is that I nearly got him down (maybe 10% health left) but then couldn't punch through his regenerating armor (the grenades weren't enough either). I'll give it another shot tonight.

Well, in that case, you can use an Assault Rifle with AP rounds or a Shotgun to make some Critical Shots after he's worn out. IIRC, attacking while in stealth could give you bonus damage. Not sure if that the best way to do it but I'm sure that'll help, too.

Oh, yeah. It's a bit of a hassle but you could just abort that mission so you could travel to Taiwan to meet Steven firsthand before getting into the bossfight. That way, you could spike his coke and finish that mission. Remember to gather all the intel you can in his mansion and use the intel option in the dialogue after you beat him to get into the secret mission, which is the last mission in the Moscow mission.

Tikey

26-03-2012, 02:56 PM

Oh, yeah. It's a bit of a hassle but you could just abort that mission so you could travel to Taiwan to meet Steven firsthand before getting into the bossfight. That way, you could spike his coke and finish that mission. Remember to gather all the intel you can in his mansion and use the intel option in the dialogue after you beat him to get into the secret mission, which is the last mission in the Moscow mission.

I remember getting all the intel but I don't remember what's this secret mission about.
Mild spoiler: It's the one at the embassy? Or did I miss something?

Voon

26-03-2012, 03:09 PM

I remember getting all the intel but I don't remember what's this secret mission about.
Mild spoiler: It's the one at the embassy? Or did I miss something?

Spoiler: You'll find out that Sergei Surkov is the bastard who you're looking for in Moscow after telling that you're arresting Brayko for stealing Halbech missiles (by picking the intel option in the dialogue after the bossfight). Brayko didn't know anything about it but he knows Surkov's the one who's into that kind of business, selling weapons. So, basically Brayko's a scapegoat.

ZamFear

26-03-2012, 03:12 PM

Yeah, when he 's about to charge you, run behind something, cloak and he will stop his charge. Then shoot him in the face. It frustrated the hell out of me before I read this approach somewhere.

If I remember right it also breaks his usual attack cycle. He won't coke up again until he's almost dead, by which point shadow operative is probably ready again. I'm not sure, but I think it might also stop him calling in reinforcements as well.

Tikey

26-03-2012, 03:16 PM

Spoiler: You'll find out that Sergei Surkov is the bastard who you're looking for in Moscow after telling that you're arresting Brayko for stealing Halbech missiles (by picking the intel option in the dialogue after the bossfight). Brayko didn't know anything about it but he knows Surkov's the one who's into that kind of business, selling weapons. So, basically Brayko's a scapegoat.

Great. I remember now. I just didn't know it was a secret mission. Thanks.

alms

26-03-2012, 04:07 PM

SPAZ:

I bounced off it over the holidays

Me too. That game confuses me, and I didn't like the controls. Will have to set aside some patience and try it again with a pad.

22h into Avadon, i.e. visiting Zethron for the second time. It's pretty easy to get into and the tactical turn-based combat is fun and not too grindy. After briefly checking out reviews, I was expecting the story to be far more nuanced. The background is nice but when it comes to your choics it looks quite black/white to me, although I haven't been playing a true RPG in a long time (last one was the first few hours of DA:O but got bored as soon as the story and NPC interaction faded in the background and the game devolved into one dull fight after the other). Also the best lines your character is given seem to be the evil chaotic ones, the others are rather wimpy - now yes playing chaotic is usually the fun option but I end up feeling like the author is actually pushing me to behave that way which I don't like much.

squirrelfanatic

26-03-2012, 06:34 PM

Scumbag

26-03-2012, 06:43 PM

Gratuitous Space Battles: Because I more or less have grasped the idea of how to design, deploy and command ships correctly rather then just watching them float about and explode. Its only taken me a year and a half to figure that out!

vinraith

26-03-2012, 06:55 PM

SPAZ:

Me too. That game confuses me, and I didn't like the controls. Will have to set aside some patience and try it again with a pad.

I can't find any way to play it with a pad. I'm not sure it'd help anyway, in my case, but I'm a little baffled that it's not an option.

alms

26-03-2012, 07:33 PM

I can't find any way to play it with a pad. I'm not sure it'd help anyway, in my case, but I'm a little baffled that it's not an option.

Yep, it's not supported natively (which is weird) but I thought you could use xpadder. Also, there were plans for an Xbox port.

DaftPunk

26-03-2012, 07:51 PM

I was checking a bathroom for some medkit supplies or ammo craters when suddenly fast zombie jumped through wall o.O Haha it scared me like hell.. :D (HL2)

Heliocentric

26-03-2012, 08:27 PM

Ha, I made it. That sucker was lucky that I let him live. Got the information out of him though. ;) My routine was to use the Assault Rifle while he wasn't drugged, Stealth when he called his mooks and take them out while invisible, then run away a bit. Took forever but succeeded.

Thanks for all the helpful information fellas!I used stealth and a 7 shot chain shot twice because of the refresh skills skill, essentially 14 bullets in the noggin instantly. Incidentally, i used AP rounds for maximum hurt, but actually spared him.

squirrelfanatic

26-03-2012, 09:25 PM

I used stealth and a 7 shot chain shot twice because of the refresh skills skill, essentially 14 bullets in the noggin instantly. Incidentally, i used AP rounds for maximum hurt, but actually spared him.Yeah, I still need to get the instant skill refresh skill. Concerning that russian guy: What the hell! I would never have thought to see that guy again after I left him broken and bleeding in his mansion. In fact, I would have loved to arrest him but couldn't find the conversation option for that. And then he just turns up at this fake factory and cuts up both that other russian guy and his prize boxer. I never asked for this!!

Heliocentric

26-03-2012, 09:28 PM

Yeah, I still need to get the instant skill refresh skill. Concerning that russian guy: What the hell! I would never have thought to see that guy again after I left him broken and bleeding in his mansion. In fact, I would have loved to arrest him but couldn't find the conversation option for that. And then he just turns up at this fake factory and cuts up both that other russian guy and his prize boxer. I never asked for this!!

The refresh skill mixed with the high level stealth skill is insane, you can be invisible in excess of 2 minutes uninterrupted. Comment on spoiler:You didn't arrest or kill the socio-path, it'd be wrong if you saw no consequences.

Ravelle

26-03-2012, 10:48 PM

Been enjoying Armored Core V and Tropico 4 a lot lately.

Memph

26-03-2012, 11:02 PM

I was checking a bathroom for some medkit supplies or ammo craters when suddenly fast zombie jumped through wall o.O Haha it scared me like hell.. :D (HL2)

It's the black headcrab flinging zombeast, in the cliffside house upper floors on Highway 17 that always gets me. First time he scared the bejeezus outta me. Every-time since he still does the same! Even though I know the bugger's there :E

Memph

26-03-2012, 11:07 PM

I have finally got round to giving Bastion a proper go. I'd played the first level a couple of times before, but never really sunk my teeth into it. Goodness, it's a lovely game.

I can't get into it. It looks nice, sounds nice, but it's just missing something and I can't much be arsed to keep going. Doesn't help I have no idea why i'm building things in any particular place and I find all the item swapping a bit of a chore.

Similar to it though, I picked up Ys for the too-tempting to pass-up price of 10 squid on Steam. It is bloody brilliant. Proper fast-paced hack and slash action, that has me feeling more skillful than Bastion does with it's constant picking-up and chugging health pots to get by.

Anthile

26-03-2012, 11:58 PM

I was only disappointed that there was no achievement/perk for defeating the prize boxer bodyguard through good old fisticuffs.

Lukasz

27-03-2012, 12:42 AM

It's the black headcrab flinging zombeast, in the cliffside house upper floors on Highway 17 that always gets me. First time he scared the bejeezus outta me. Every-time since he still does the same! Even though I know the bugger's there :E
oh god. remember that. first time i was checking up the floor and it was completely empty but at one point i turned around and that guy was just inches away from me. Did not attack but i frigging panicked and tried to switch weapon to something better than I had.
Then I shot him with a rocket launcher at point blank range.

Nalano

27-03-2012, 01:54 AM

Did a round of Fall of the Shogun, and I keep hitting the same problems of the base game: I beat all my nearby enemies and end up allied to too many people, who are also embroiled in their own alliances. Thankfully, however, unlike the base game, Fall of the Shogun basically treated every province as either pro-Shogun or pro-Imperial despite who owned it, so I didn't have to break up the love-in to win.

Also, it's really fucking hard to get a railroad worth having. Each line meanders around a dogpile of tiny provinces, so you have to choose between keeping the peace and not having one or just declaring war because your neighbors won't build up their provinces.

Sorta like how China exported 200,000 construction workers to Kyrgyzstan because they were sick of shipping their goods around it.

DaftPunk

27-03-2012, 10:03 AM

oh god. remember that. first time i was checking up the floor and it was completely empty but at one point i turned around and that guy was just inches away from me. Did not attack but i frigging panicked and tried to switch weapon to something better than I had.
Then I shot him with a rocket launcher at point blank range.

Ahahah :D I can imagine that,hilarious.

Cryptoshrimp

27-03-2012, 10:56 AM

So I just finished the Game With No Endings, and it was, as expected, disappointing. I'd like to make words about it, but since the entire internet has already done so, I'll just leave it and go back to replay the first part (which I think is much, much better in some areas). Though the guns are so bloody lovely. Sniper rifles especially. They should keep that system.

Also playing a few missions of WH40K:DOW. It's getting a bit repetitive, but the Imperial Guard is the gift that keeps on dying for my amusement. Woo, Leman Russ tanks!

Jams O'Donnell

27-03-2012, 11:02 AM

It's the black headcrab flinging zombeast, in the cliffside house upper floors on Highway 17 that always gets me. First time he scared the bejeezus outta me. Every-time since he still does the same! Even though I know the bugger's there :E
My preferred HL2 zombie encounter is the one that bursts out of a pipe at you as you approach Nova Prospekt. The first time I did that section I could hear it grumbling and coming towards me, but couldn't see where it was coming from. Somehow I ended up stepping away from the pipe at the last second as this enraged zombie hurled itself out of there at top speed and went hurtling into the ocean below.

No matter how many times I've tried, I can't recreate that first wonderful version.

Herzog

27-03-2012, 12:00 PM

Amnesia - The Dark Descent : I finally finished it yesterday evening. What a great game! And so damn scary! I needed eight hours over the course of nine months to finish this damn thing because of me being a wimp. "A Machine for Pigs" will be a day one buy!

Dear Esther: Played this at my friends home using a HD beamer. It looks very very beautiful, but that is all. Wouldnt buy again, but with "A Machine for Pigs" it seems the developers want to bring in some gameplay.

1000 Amps: Also finished this one. Nice indie puzzle platformer. Only problem is that it is running in Flash. So sometimes I had severe mouselag which made the game unplayable. So a 2D platformer that is not running well on my machine that makes Metro 2033 run well is kind of a letdown. Still would recommend it as the gameplay is nice and with the latest patch the performance had a small boost.

Red Orchestra 2: Three more hours and RO2 will be on the first spot of my most played games in my steam library. Still enjoy it a lot, but I am excited for the next update which will include RO classic mode.