What are you playing at the moment?

[DaftPunk]

Just ride alongside the train, but give yourself a few feet between you and it so that Smoke's bullets hit the guys on top, instead of the side of the train.


Believe me i already tried and guy can't shoot for shit.

[Birdman Tribe Leader]

Believe me i already tried and guy can't shoot for shit.

That mission's just a huge pain. You'll probably have to try a bunch of times. Another thing you can try to do is land your bike on top of the train when you go over that little bridge in the countryside and from there hop off and shoot everyone yourself (or shoot everyone from your bike). I don't think I ever managed to get that method to work, though.

[DaftPunk]

I also love how game don't won't to give you any cars when you need them.especially when you're on mission and you need to hurry up -.-

Uh also i hate when i park car in mission,go inside shoot some bad guys,then i need to follow someone with car and suddenly there's no parked car outside.. :v

[Casimir Effect]

I also love how game don't won't to give you any cars when you need them.especially when you're on mission and you need to hurry up -.-

Uh also i hate when i park car in mission,go inside shoot some bad guys,then i need to follow someone with car and suddenly there's no parked car outside.. :v
Those games always loved to pull dickmoves like that. My personal favourite is when you get a mission which forces you to use a certain type of vehicle when you could easily do it in another, better one. For example: being forced to use a motorbike when chasing someone who's riding one. Let me use a car for crying out loud, I can ram the fucker off the road!

[Pertusaria]

Playing Fallen London since it was reviewed by RPS a weekend or two ago. I like some of the story-lines, but sometimes the gap in skill between actions you can do easily and ones that are still much too tough for you is a bit off-putting. From the point of view of my sanity, I like the fact that so far there's no way to increase your turns-per-time unit limit other than spending Fate, which seems to be rarely dropped in-game and mainly a way of raising a bit of cash for development. Kingdom of Loathing, which I like and which is a bit similar in its mechanics, can take up a lot of time because a smart player can get loads more turns over the 40-something basic daily limit.

Also playing Football Manager, or (probably) flailing about cluelessly in Football Manager. I really think this game has a lot in common with Europa Universalis in how open-ended it is.

[Serenegoose]

I'd be playing gotham city impostors if it ran other than awfully on my PC.

[Nalano]

Those games always loved to pull dickmoves like that. My personal favourite is when you get a mission which forces you to use a certain type of vehicle when you could easily do it in another, better one. For example: being forced to use a motorbike when chasing someone who's riding one. Let me use a car for crying out loud, I can ram the fucker off the road!

Certain games are good for sidestepping that, though they do so at the risk of breaking game balance. Both Saints Row 2 and 3 kept your car there next to the spawned car for the mission, so if your car was superior you could keep driving it. This lead to ridiculously easy missions because of the sheer amount of upgrades you could apply to owned vehicles.

[NathanH]

I continue to be impressed by ME3. It's really very good.

[Billen]

Playing League of Legends, wondering why.

[Rii]

So, Valkyria Chronicles is pretty fantastic. There aren't many games that rate as highly across the board: soul, style, substance, etc. Minor UI and menu navigation issues would constitute my only criticisms to date.

I suspect that I'll be chewing on this one for a while.

[Casimir Effect]

Just finished playing To The Moon and damn it was beautiful. Reminded me of Dreamfall in many ways. Recommended to anyone who wants a good story, and I recommend the soundtrack as well.

Just realised that the other game I'm playing right now couldn't be more different... as it's Bulletstorm.

[Nalano]

I continue to be impressed by ME3. It's really very good.

It is. It really is.

[Juan Carlo]

It is. It really is.

ME3 is awesome. By far the best of the series. Don't let the absurd and overblown fan tantrum over the endings distract you from what a good game it is. I played through it in a vacuum (I wanted no spoilers) and was riveted the entire time (well, most of the time. Some of the busywork quests and planet hunting could have been scaled back). So when I did check the forums after finishing I was kind of surprised at the reaction.

[Fumarole]

Playing League of Legends, wondering why.My friends are playing and wondering why I am not.

[Duckee]

Apart from Fallout, I have been playing a lot of Natural Selection 2. It is actually a really really good game now, and it is starting to feel like a finished game. At least it is finished "enough" to have many hours of satisfying gameplay out of it. It is also turning into a more tense game, as the marines are royally fucked once the lights go out because the aliens have chewed out the power. You do get the occasional Aliens vibe. It is not feature complete yet though, so some higher tech items have not been implemented yet. There is also balancing issues, but it is still early beta. Still, I do recommend it to anyone with a passing interest in FPS/RTS. I believe you can pre order to get into beta.

[Flint]

Don't let the absurd and overblown fan tantrum over the endings distract you from what a good game it is.
To be fair, the "tantrum" has been directed solely at the ending. Most readily admit the rest of the game is amazing.

[Heliocentric]

Apart from Fallout, I have been playing a lot of Natural Selection 2.

Excellent to hear, a few graphics bugs had made it unplayable for me, I'll have to come back to it and see if it was sorted.

[Nalano]

To be fair, the "tantrum" has been directed solely at the ending. Most readily admit the rest of the game is amazing.

Nah, the tantrum's pretty much enveloped everything - how the ending's cast a pall over the whole series, how Bioware's tainted stock now, why they should offer refunds and apologies and footrubs...

[Drake Sigar]

how Bioware's tainted stock now, why they should offer refunds and apologies and footrubs...
DA2 deja vu.

[Flint]

Nah, the tantrum's pretty much enveloped everything - how the ending's cast a pall over the whole series, how Bioware's tainted stock now, why they should offer refunds and apologies and footrubs...
But the source of the outcry is solely the ending, not the rest of the game.

[Nalano]

But the source of the outcry is solely the ending, not the rest of the game.

It's pretty much generalized Bioware hate bandwagoning at this point. To hear it described, Bioware didn't make a game; they just marched to each fan's house and kicked 'em in the nuts. They can do no right, etc etc...

[Herzog]

I am currently away from my PC gaming machine, so for two monthes I have to stick to my android tablet. Currently playing through World of Goo which I enjoy a lot. The graphical style is very nice, funny music and most important the UI is fantastic for touchscreen playing.
Also bought the 20th anniversary edition of Another World. Only spent some minutes at the beginning, but damn this is hard. The input over the touchscreen further adds to the high difficulty. Think I will play this using a gamepad sometime.
Another thing I tried was Avadon:The Black Fortress. Only played the tutorial, but it seemed fun and the UI seemed good too. Not sure when I have the time for this, as I heard it is quiet lenghty.

[NathanH]

DA2 deja vu.

I don't think that's fair; it's reasonable to dislike DA2 strongly since it changes so much from the original. ME3, on the other hand, just seems to be an improved ME2, with some elements from ME1 that were streamlined out in 2 put back in in a more coherent way. All the changes made throughout the Mass Effect series are logical and consistent, and they seem to really understand what they're doing with it, so that when for instance they make a mistake like the streamlined inventory in ME2 to fix the bloated inventory in ME1, they realize exactly how to fix it for ME3.

Making EDI a sexbot is my only complaint so far. Oh, and having Space do everything. I don't think it needs too many more keys, maybe 2 rather than 1.

[Heliocentric]

Making EDI a sexbot is my only complaint so far. Oh, and having Space do everything. I don't think it needs too many more keys, maybe 2 rather than 1.

Guess who was lead on controls?
http://archivethumb3.foolz.us/board/m/img/0073/05/1327194573014.jpg

[airtekh]

Apart from Fallout, I have been playing a lot of Natural Selection 2. It is actually a really really good game now, and it is starting to feel like a finished game. At least it is finished "enough" to have many hours of satisfying gameplay out of it. It is also turning into a more tense game, as the marines are royally fucked once the lights go out because the aliens have chewed out the power. You do get the occasional Aliens vibe. It is not feature complete yet though, so some higher tech items have not been implemented yet. There is also balancing issues, but it is still early beta. Still, I do recommend it to anyone with a passing interest in FPS/RTS. I believe you can pre order to get into beta.

I read the patch notes every time they have a new release and they seem to be still adding lots of new stuff.

I'm waiting for them to start finalizing the game for a release to start playing it, because I think I'd be annoyed with the constantly changing gameplay.

[cosmicolor]

I got myseif into the Super Monday Night Combat beta so I've been playing that.... or trying to, while my shite internet prevents me from actually playing, earning me leaves due to my connection constantly dropping. That, and random server crashes thanks to the influx of people like me who just got keys.

[Winged Nazgul]

Working my way through Batman: Arkham City but keep getting sidetracked playing one more game on Gotham City Imposters (the game is just so much fun). At least I have a consistent theme going.

[Tikey]

I'm revisiting Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.
From an art direction point of view is perhaps the weakest, but it's somewhat interesting in it's small openness. Also the combat system is good (it was great when it came out) and it doesn't have carriage races.

[DaftPunk]

Warrior Within is my favorite prince of persia^^ I love combat system,best in series.

[alms]

Another thing I tried was Avadon:The Black Fortress. Only played the tutorial, but it seemed fun and the UI seemed good too. Not sure when I have the time for this, as I heard it is quiet lenghty.

Depends. Took me 62-63h trying to do all the sidequests. Eventually I sidestepped the 3 strongest enemies, otherwise it would have taken longer. If you try to cut it short, it's probably around 40h.

[Heliocentric]

I'm waiting for them to start finalizing the game for a release to start playing it, because I think I'd be annoyed with the constantly changing gameplay.

Really? I love that kind of stuff, one power or tool/unit gets added to a strategic game and it flips the whole world upside down forcing you to discard methods which were previously perfect. Constantly reinventing itself.

[Althea]

I finished Faerie Solitaire this morning. Yup.

[Duckee]

Really? I love that kind of stuff, one power or tool/unit gets added to a strategic game and it flips the whole world upside down forcing you to discard methods which were previously perfect. Constantly reinventing itself.

To be fair, it is only the higher tier items that have not been added. From what I understand this means stuff like Heavy Armor and Miniguns. The Jetpack and Onos are in the game right now.

[DaftPunk]

Completed that mission with Big Smoke in San ANdreas,which gave me allot of problems until today..i made it in first try! Jumped on train,killed two guys,fell off then chased them and Smoke finished the job :v Hiihiphuraaa !

[Skalpadda]

In my quest to reduce the guilt pile I finally got round to Just Cause 2 and find myself enjoying it a lot, in a "'splosions! woo, flying!" sort of way. Does anyone know if I'll miss out on anything but dumb story if I decide to not do the agency missions and just generally explore and cause havoc when the fancy takes me?

[Althea]

In my quest to reduce the guilt pile I finally got round to Just Cause 2 and find myself enjoying it a lot, in a "'splosions! woo, flying!" sort of way. Does anyone know if I'll miss out on anything but dumb story if I decide to not do the agency missions and just generally explore and cause havoc when the fancy takes me?
Not sure, but I don't think so.

[Tikey]

The agency missions are so over the top they're actually quite fun.

[Jams O'Donnell]

In my quest to reduce the guilt pile I finally got round to Just Cause 2 and find myself enjoying it a lot, in a "'splosions! woo, flying!" sort of way. Does anyone know if I'll miss out on anything but dumb story if I decide to not do the agency missions and just generally explore and cause havoc when the fancy takes me?
Some story missions end in fun setpieces, like parachuting away from exploding radar dishes and the like.

[Skalpadda]

Thanks, I'll probably get round to them eventually, but I won't make a point of doing them as soon as they become available.

[Lambchops]

Warrior Within is my favorite prince of persia^^ I love combat system,best in series.

I agree about the combat system but the art direction/soundtrack/whining Prince relegated it to being my least favourite in that trilogy.

[Tikey]

I agree about the combat system but the art direction/soundtrack/whining Prince relegated it to being my least favourite in that trilogy.

Don't forget the thong armour.

[Bleekill]

Started playing The Witcher 2 again. I bought it on sale around the same time I got BF3 on sale (on or after Christmas) and didn't really dig into it because I was still all over Skyrim/digging into BF3. Now that I've got a character to 50 in Skyrim and kind of bored of BF3, I feel like digging into the Witcher 2. I'm only on Chapter 1 and already very absorbed. I love the story and gameplay, the visuals. Pretty much everything except how it can get choppy even though I have a good enough rig. It auto-detected me to run the game on high but sometimes I get lag at random times, like in cities. It's wierd there is no frame-rate problems during combat though.

[Flint]

Well, I got properly snagged by Duels of the Planeswalkers again, sweet sweet card addiction... I have to say though, I'm somewhat disappointed with Deck Pack 2, the two new decks do not really bring anything new to the table. The green one is another deck that relies on different units of the same monster type which all support eachother in a group, only this time it's ents instead of elves/vampires/etc, and it doesn't really have a unique angle compared to the other decks of its kind. The black/white one has nothing other special going for it other than the novel black/white combination, playstyle-wise it's your typical black deck. Now I don't know if with later unlocks they come to their own, but so far they seem a bit too samey whereas all the other decks in the game (including Deck Pack 1) have all had an unique angle of some sort. They generally feel a bit lazy: their planeswalkers haven't got their own names and just go by the deck's name, and at least the green one's avatar is taken from a bog-standard card.

Still a wonderful game though, and I can't say I feel too burned over spending that 69p on the two new decks.

[NathanH]

The black/white deck is really different, it has big creatures with no land ramp so your task is to stall for enough turns. The low-power stuff is mostly geared around keeping yourself alive for long enough for the fatties. You've got walls that are actually worth having, and cool spells that kill everything alive and resurrect everything dead. There's combos based on killing your own creatures. It's got a lot of fun in it.

The green deck is mostly just a simple mono-green deck that is not hideously weak like the original mono-green deck. It's interesting because a lot of its creatures are hard to kill but not very dangerous, making it a slow ponderous but tough force. Like ents should be.

[Flint]

The black/white deck is really different, it has big creatures with no land ramp so your task is to stall for enough turns. The low-power stuff is mostly geared around keeping yourself alive for long enough for the fatties. You've got walls that are actually worth having, and cool spells that kill everything alive and resurrect everything dead. There's combos based on killing your own creatures. It's got a lot of fun in it.
Fair dos, looks like I have to play with it a bit more then. Admittedly, a lot of the game's decks are the sort where it takes a while before you really get the gist of them so should've guessed I judged it a bit too hastily.


The green deck is mostly just a simple mono-green deck that is not hideously weak like the original mono-green deck.
You mean Garruk's deck? I'd heavily disagree on it being hideously weak. It's not particularly flashy or special but it can be rather deadly: overall nicely strong creatures, a couple of choice buffs and those deer that heal you whenever you gain mana. For a long time it was my go-to deck whenever I felt stuck in the campaign thanks to its brute force.

If you refer to the elf deck then yeah, I agree there.

[squirrelfanatic]

Played through Alpha Protocol yesterday for the first time. The game was better than I had initially expected and had a surprise or two up it's sleeve. Like for example that one time when I scored with three ladies in a row. Or when I took a wrong door and got my favourite co-worker shot in the head for it. Good times.

I also loved the funny little details scattered throughout the levels, like this one:

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn37/Squirrelfanatic/2012-04-10_00001.jpg

[Althea]

Started playing The Witcher 2 again.
The next patch is in a week, might want to wait until then to continue.

[Drake Sigar]

Played through Alpha Protocol yesterday for the first time. The game was better than I had initially expected and had a surprise or two up it's sleeve. Like for example that one time when I scored with three ladies in a row. Or when I took a wrong door and got my favourite co-worker shot in the head for it. Good times. You did all that in one day?

[NathanH]

You mean Garruk's deck? I'd heavily disagree on it being hideously weak.

I think the lack of any sort of creature removal/bounce/control is crippling for Garruk's deck. Especially given that most decks have some cards that really need to be controlled, and lots of them come out quickly. Also Garruk doesn't have much ramp or cost-reduction cards. I'm usually happy to see Garruk come up against me in multiplayer, I feel like I'm going to win that matchup unless I get a bad draw and he gets a good draw. Sometimes it gets everything together and launches an Overrun, but not very often.

The relative absence of the deck in multiplayer suggests I'm not the only one who isn't impressed, too.

[DaftPunk]

Played through Alpha Protocol yesterday for the first time. The game was better than I had initially expected and had a surprise or two up it's sleeve. Like for example that one time when I scored with three ladies in a row. Or when I took a wrong door and got my favourite co-worker shot in the head for it. Good times.

I also loved the funny little details scattered throughout the levels, like this one:




Haha you have same beard as my char in AP :D


Guys,do you think this is main character from GTA 3," Claude (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(Grand_Theft_Auto))"


http://shrani.si/t/1F/9i/Uh4RfyV/ad2.jpg (http://shrani.si/?1F/9i/Uh4RfyV/ad2.jpg)

[Heliocentric]

Guys,do you think this is main character from GTA 3,"



Did you not notice who his girlfriend is by the end?

SPOILERS BE THAR >The very woman who betrays you at the start of GTA3 and whome you kill as the final boss <SPOILERS BE THAR

[squirrelfanatic]

You did all that in one day?All in a day's work. :P

[Althea]

Guys,do you think this is main character from GTA 3,"Claude (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%28Grand_Theft_Auto%29)"
No, it's just some look-a-like.

(Yes, that is the GTA 3 protagonist)

[Bleekill]

The next patch is in a week, might want to wait until then to continue.

Hmmmm, well I already started a game back in December. Is this patch worth restarting a game if I'm only at the end of Chapter 1? Damn I love this game. I hope the patch is heavy on the optimization because I get jittery frame rate in cities when I'm panning around on High.

After reading about the patch, I guess I will start a new game when it is out. I already made a few mistakes in this first play through like killing too many guards when I was just supposed to sneak out of the dungeon.

[Casimir Effect]

That's Bulletstorm down. Two games in two days, that won't be happening again soon. Had a lot of fun with it and the skillshot system never got dull. It was also great how this game didn't suddenly decide to have a dark, survival part. Or if it did then it didn't matter as I just plowed through it kicking people into spikes, fire, barrels and off cliffs. Shame the sequel is looking doubtful - and that Epic are whining about piracy being the reason - but there's plenty of replay value left in this game.

[Heliocentric]

Played Coop Splinter Cell chaos Theory with Sir Labbes

We were doing a seamless run of the 2nd mission... Then he detonates the C4 on the APC while feet away and its game over, i swear, Fisher never had the deal with this!

[Labbes]

Played Coop Splinter Cell chaos Theory with Sir Labbes

We were doing a seamless run of the 2nd mission... Then he detonates the C4 on the APC while feet away and its game over, i swear, Fisher never had the deal with this!

One should add I died twice before in the mission.
1: Helio switched the turret on while I was standing in front of it.
2: He threw me against a ceiling and I died. It's exactly as unspectacular as it sounds.

[DaftPunk]

Did you not notice who his girlfriend is by the end?

SPOILERS BE THAR >The very woman who betrays you at the start of GTA3 and whome you kill as the final boss <SPOILERS BE THAR


But didn't she died at the end of GTA 3 o.O

[Nalano]

But didn't she died at the end of GTA 3 o.O

GTA:VC's set in 1986. GTA:SA's set in 1992. GTA3's set in today.

[Heliocentric]

But didn't she died at the end of GTA 3 o.O

GTA 3 =2000's
San Andreas 1990's



GTA:VC's set in 1986. GTA:SA's set in 1992. GTA3's set in today.
Fail, not today, its the Twenty Teens now momma.

[DaftPunk]

Oh you're right,forgot SA is before GTA 3..my bad :(

Anyway nice touch from Rockstar to include that :D

[Nalano]

Fail, not today, its the Twenty Teens now momma.

You kids and your eye-pads and your tumblers! Back in my day, a tumbler was what my drink was poured out of!

[airtekh]

Fair dos, looks like I have to play with it a bit more then. Admittedly, a lot of the game's decks are the sort where it takes a while before you really get the gist of them so should've guessed I judged it a bit too hastily.

I love Dark Heavens (the black/white deck), it's very fun to play.

Definitely unlock a few more cards before you ditch it; there's some essential stuff in the unlocks, like 'Voice of All' and 'Damnation'. I took out a few of the higher cost cards (like 'Pestilence Demon' and 'Angel of Despair') because most of the time they're just sitting in your hand and you can't play them.

[Pumkins123]

Super Mario galaxy 2
Twilight princess
Kid Icarus uprising

[SirKicksalot]

You are EMPTY.
Always wanted to play it, not sure why I only do it now... got it from the 1C Pack on GamersGate.

Back in 2006 I read a review of it in a magazine. It gave it a seven, I think, but showered it with praise. It pointed out the things it does right, especially the incredible Soviet imagery and many jokes and details which fly over the head of most people. Also it earned their Best Cutscenes award for that year.

I investigated a bit on Youtube and indeed it looks pretty spectacular (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfrI_oyhrL4). Not sure about the caricatural enemies in that realistic setting. Apparently one company handled the visual design and another provided the actual programming (and didn't finish their part).

Now, I only played for 10 minutes. I need a codec for the videos to run and apparently I have to restart my computer for the resolution to change, but I gave it a shot.
INSTANT NOSTALGIA.
The atmosphere is amazing. You can cut it with a knife. Yeah, the enemies are retarded, but the level design... It nails that Soviet look and feel so good. I lost it when I heard the radio.
I'm going to fix this game and I'm going to play the shit out of it, even if that means dusting off my 2003 laptop that overheats and shuts down after being idle for 45 minutes.

[Oak]

Mount & Blade & Mount & Blade & Mount & Blade & Mount & Blade & Mount & Blade.

[NathanH]

I love Dark Heavens (the black/white deck), it's very fun to play.

Definitely unlock a few more cards before you ditch it; there's some essential stuff in the unlocks, like 'Voice of All' and 'Damnation'. I took out a few of the higher cost cards (like 'Pestilence Demon' and 'Angel of Despair') because most of the time they're just sitting in your hand and you can't play them.

Unfortunately Voice Of All is implemented incorrectly and "as it enters the battlefield" is interpreted as "when it enters the battlefield", giving your opponent an opportunity to target it for removal before its protection ability resolves :-( Still, it's not a bad card, even though this bug makes me not use it. There are a lot of good cards in the deck so it's tough to cut it down. I sometimes even leave one of the destroy-nonblack-creature spells out!

Another good thing about Dark Heavens is that it pwns that ridiculously cheap knight DLC deck that everyone uses these days.

[Jams O'Donnell]

Dragon Quest IX on the commute device. It's really quite nice. The DQ games always seem to be aimed at a younger audience, but they're generally charming and this one is no exception.

I started dipping my toe into LA Noire a few weeks ago, but haven't had any time for proper gaming since then. However, in a few recent sales I have picked up Condoms of Amalur, Space Marine, Death to Spies: Moment of Truth, and Space Rangers 2. I have no clue how to decide which to play.

[Drake Sigar]

Mount & Blade & Mount & Blade & Mount & Blade & Mount & Blade & Mount & Blade.
I know exactly what you mean.

[alms]

Finished Nikopol: Secret of the Immortals. Adventuregamers.com is almost spot on in highlighting all of its flaws. I'll add that navigating around the environment was a very confusing and frustrating affair - I only finished it just to see how the story went about and relying heavily on a strategy guide.

The first BeMine bundle was really not my cup of tea: I only redeemed BEEP and Nikopol and didn't like either one. I'm probably going to trade the rest of the keys, if someone is reading this and is interested just send me some offer.

Still stuck on Odyssey in B.TR after almost 5h -.-'

[Statoke]

Gothem City imposters, King Arthurs Gold, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and Runescape. 11/04/2012

[TailSwallower]

Atom Zombie Smasher. Not really able to focus on anything too in-depth at the moment, but killing zombies (and civilians) with orbital bombardments apparently requires less focus than leading a small band of superheroes, or a sole Vault Dweller.

[eRa]

Just started Legend of Grimrock. I need to figure out how to tone down the sound volume, otherwise it runs very smoothly. Also Panzer Corps Grand Campaign '43 which is a bastard when it comes to difficulty. And more Fall of the Samurai, artillery is absolutely hilarious/overpowered. I'm also way behind when it comes to conquering the necessary amount of provinces, mostly due to conquered provinces rioting if not overseen by a significant amount of military personell.

[Drake Sigar]

Legend of Grimrock's first level is perfect. Teaches you everything you need to know about the game whether you be a hardened dungeoneer or a simpleton who tripped and fell onto a computer.

Also, spears!

[Voon]

Dragon Quest IX on the commute device. It's really quite nice. The DQ games always seem to be aimed at a younger audience, but they're generally charming and this one is no exception.

Try Dragon Quest V. I find the game much better than IX from my experience but it's shorter.

[cosmicolor]

I too have started Legend of Grimrock. Running a fighter x2/mage/rogue party right now. Found a spear and a scroll so now everyone's getting attacks in and pulling their weight. Did almost kill myself with a spell, too.

[TillEulenspiegel]

Running a fighter x2/mage/rogue party right now.
Same here! I played for 30 minutes with Figher/Rogue/Mage/Mage, but restarted after I realized all the clicking involved in spellcasting. Three clicks every time you want to cast a basic fire spell, vs. one click to attack with a weapon. Ugh. As I suspected, combat is basically a time management game. No keyboard shortcuts either, you gotta click click click.

Still, exploration is enjoyable.

[Anthile]

Playing Grimdarkrock as well. I don't really see why this game is not turn-based. It appears that the best way to fight is hit-move-hit-move and pray to the RNG while doing so. Also, I don't really get the magic system. So basically you have to invest points into whatever magic discipline you prefer with not much of an indication as to what it actually does or even what spells you get but then you don't even have any spells and you have to find them in dungeons first and THEN you have to hammer those into your magic cell phone every time you want to see the special effects?
Man, those spells better be worth it.

[hariseldon]

Grimlock is now eating my life.

[Drake Sigar]

Minotaur up front hoping to abuse the shit out of his headhunter trait, human warrior alongside rockin' that heavy armour I found em, rogue hanging back with a spear until I can find her a bow, and insectoid wizard clicking his mandibles in delight at his ice spell. I also found him a mortar and pestle to start making a few potions.


Man, those spells better be worth it.

I think technically you don't even have to find the scroll. If you've got the required skill points, you can probably cast the spell at any point. Might not be much chance of that without a walkthrough or excessive experimentation though. That ice spell I mentioned can hit 4 skeleton spearmen at the same time. My fighters couldn't handle them. My advice is to save up your wizard's skill points until you find more scrolls so you won't end up spending them on magic you're not going to find for some time. Keep in mind you can't have everything. I've limited myself to two fields of study - fire and ice.

[Flint]

Grimrock is sooooo good.

My party consists of human and minotaur warriors at front, human rogue throwing things and spearing stuff at the back (and hopefully one day shooting things) and an insectoid mage doing the... maging. I've already made some tiny little errors regarding skill points etc (as Drake said, it's probably best to specialise and so far my mage has been a bit too multi-tasking in his points) but I don't care, I'm having a great time. Live and learn! The combat works surprisingly well as well, although my tactics mainly include running around the enemies in a square route, whacking every time I can. But it works! Knocked off those skeleton spearmen quartets pretty easily.

And yeah, it would seem like you can cast any spell at any point provided you have the skill points. I managed to already find some spell recipes by using some minor form of logic to deduce potential rune combinations and found a couple, but the only thing that casting them did was create a puff of smoke, take up energy and give a "not skillful enough" sort of notification.

If there's any complaint I've got so far, it's that I'd quite like the last spell cast to stay in the spellcasting interface until you insert another rune combination, rather than clicking the runes for the exact same spell every time you cast the spell. It's not a system breaker, but really awkward in combat.

[Drake Sigar]

Yeah, kinda annoying. Still, at least you don't have to guide a Parkingson's-riddled hand into drawing a specific set of symbols in the air before that approaching troll sodomises you with his club, a la Arx Fatalis.

Worst. Magic. Ever.

[Althea]

Well, I picked up the expansion and deck packs when DotP 2012 had its sale, as well as the unlocks, and it's £5 I half-regret spending. It's not so much that it's bad, it's just that the game is a bit of a dick at times and broken at others. Still, I've got them now, I won't continue to think about maybe buying them at some point. It's done, over, I've got them if I want to use them.

Also got Breath of Death VII: The Beginning & Cthulhu Saves the World when the pack was a daily. After wrangling with them to get them to work (I had to install WMP!), I tried BoD VII. I didn't get too far (I was trying to find the second companion - the girl with the shotgun) and the game kinda dicked me over with a fight I couldn't win. I'll give it another go at some point. It wasn't bad, as such, but the balance seems a bit off.

Also still playing Dragon Age 2. Took a break this weekend after doing ~15hrs in it last week, and I picked it back up today as I finally got my Black Emporium code (and, as such, could "fix" my Hawke - but I ended up redoing her a little and changing from 2H to 1H+S). Enjoying it, definitely, and I kinda wish I'd picked it up before, but I don't know if I'd have been able to "appreciate" it like I can now.

[Anthile]

My party is a bit different. I have a insectoid fighter, minotaur fighter, human mage (appropriately named Wizardry the Wizard) and a lizard dude rogue. One thing they should definitely change is to give you at least basic weapons with which your guys are proficient with. I thought my rogue could do some damage with bows but two hours into the game I have yet to see one so he's mostly useless at the moment. Almost wish I had a second mage instead.

[Wizardry]

Same here! I played for 30 minutes with Figher/Rogue/Mage/Mage, but restarted after I realized all the clicking involved in spellcasting. Three clicks every time you want to cast a basic fire spell, vs. one click to attack with a weapon. Ugh. As I suspected, combat is basically a time management game. No keyboard shortcuts either, you gotta click click click.
Pretty much the reason why I hate real-time blobbers. I may give this a go though as I'm fucking starved.

[Casimir Effect]

Also got Breath of Death VII: The Beginning & Cthulhu Saves the World when the pack was a daily. After wrangling with them to get them to work (I had to install WMP!), I tried BoD VII. I didn't get too far (I was trying to find the second companion - the girl with the shotgun) and the game kinda dicked me over with a fight I couldn't win. I'll give it another go at some point. It wasn't bad, as such, but the balance seems a bit off.
Those games seem to be unashamedly old-skool JRPG-based and so grinding is implied. I've played a couple hours of Cthulu and didn't have any fights that required it but I must admit to wandering around more than necessary just to trigger extra random encounters to get more XP. Never my preferred system but those games make everything quick and easy (full health regen after battles, super-quick load times, no silly long animations etc [insert big fuck-you to Lost Odyssey here])


and, as such, could "fix" my Hawke
This just makes me think you've spayed your Hawke.

[Flint]

Jesus bloody christ the sodding bloody giant spiders in Grimrock GOOD LORD ARGH. They're seemingly everywhere, they're sneaky as hell, they're animated to a horrifyingly lively degree and dearie me there's nothing worse than randomly getting a screen full of giant spider when yet another one of them bastards attacks out of nowhere. I got startled to the point of exclaiming out loud more than once!

[Wizardry]

Jesus bloody christ the sodding bloody giant spiders in Grimrock GOOD LORD ARGH. They're seemingly everywhere, they're sneaky as hell, they're animated to a horrifyingly lively degree and dearie me there's nothing worse than randomly getting a screen full of giant spider when yet another one of them bastards attacks out of nowhere. I got startled to the point of exclaiming out loud more than once!
You should have put less points into arachnophobia.

[Juan Carlo]

So I'm the only one who bought "Avernum" today instead of "Grimrock"?

Grimrock looks fine and all, but I can wait for a sale.

[SirKicksalot]

I fixed You Are Empty.
It's an example of how much retarded enemies can hurt a game. It tries some sort of Painkiller vibe but most enemies really, really suck.

The game has an INCREDIBLE atmosphere, very grim and oppressive... occasionally ruined by a shitty cartoony enemy. The sound design (enemies aside) rivals Stalker. About 45 minutes into the game you reach a city which is basically a combination of Kiev and Moscow. Honestly, this is one of the most impressive cities I've ever seen in a game. Also the retarded enemy encounters have been toned down.

You can check out my screenshots here (http://steamcommunity.com/id/sirkicksalot/screenshots/?tab=&showdate=1&filter=shortcut_5341). I swear this game is worth playing for the atmosphere alone. If you like Eastern European games like Cryostasis and Stalker, pick this up at the nearest bargain bin, do your best to ignore the enemies and play it. I wish it had no combat because everything else is utterly brilliant. Just walking through that titanic city is a great experience. No wonder GSC picked up some level designers that worked on this...

[trjp]

Sneaked a go at the Trial of "The Splatters" (was Confetti Carnival) on the 360 tonight and it's lovely...

It's just original enough to make you think about it a bit and whilst you only get a few early levels, it's easy to see that it has potential for much entertainment.

I suspect I'll wait for it's promised PC release tho - I have no Gold on the 360 these days and some score chasing seems in order (and probably won't work without paying MS money for old rope).

[Fumarole]

Pretty much the reason why I hate real-time blobbers. I may give this a go though as I'm fucking starved.If you enjoy Dungeon Master you'll enjoy this. Keyboard movement is a massive improvement.

[Althea]

Those games seem to be unashamedly old-skool JRPG-based and so grinding is implied. I've played a couple hours of Cthulu and didn't have any fights that required it but I must admit to wandering around more than necessary just to trigger extra random encounters to get more XP. Never my preferred system but those games make everything quick and easy (full health regen after battles, super-quick load times, no silly long animations etc [insert big fuck-you to Lost Odyssey here])
It's certainly an "Easy Mode" game, I just found the balance of the fights to be ridiculous. You'll have a bunch of fairly easy fights, and then it went "o hai here r 4 ogres for just 2 of u 2 kill lol :)".

[Jams O'Donnell]

Aw crap, when I was bingeing on games-on-sale I completely forgot that I'd preordered Grimrock. Now I have no clue what to play at all.

[Vexing Vision]

So I'm the only one who bought "Avernum" today instead of "Grimrock"?

Grimrock looks fine and all, but I can wait for a sale.

I have Avernum scheduled for the end of April. Grimrock first - I already played through Avernum 1 and Exile 1 a few times. :) (Still going to get it though. Physical need to support Spiderweb.)

[Heliocentric]

Just had a fiddle about with Kings Bounty Crossworlds. It is unashamedly more of the same but the battles feel more hand picked and there (so far) is less wandering about trying to figure out who to fight.

The mercenary campaign was insane however. Here's a few goblins... Boom giant turtle. Game over... Clearly I missed some troops?

[DaftPunk]

SW:Jedi Academy is piss easy game,even on hard settings :/

[sabrage]

My party is a bit different. I have a insectoid fighter, minotaur fighter, human mage (appropriately named Wizardry the Wizard) and a lizard dude rogue. One thing they should definitely change is to give you at least basic weapons with which your guys are proficient with. I thought my rogue could do some damage with bows but two hours into the game I have yet to see one so he's mostly useless at the moment. Almost wish I had a second mage instead.
The bow is hidden :) But I prefer throwing weapons.

I die a lot in this game. Damn those skeleton guard blobs.

[Drake Sigar]

Found a secret alternate staircase leading to some slimes which are just too tough for me. I'll come back later.

Tip of the day: When you find a pit/trap door, save and jump down. Sometimes they lead to valuable things.

[icemann]

As well as playing through .Hack GU Part 2, I've started playing C&C 2 (standard campaign) as I have yet to finish the game. Good times.

[cosmicolor]

Oh God I hope the Grimrock devs actually make that arachnophobia patch... I don't usually get freaked out about video game spiders but Christ.

[Drake Sigar]

The only video game spiders which have scared me were the ones in Dark Messiah. Those bastards sure like leaping for your face.

[DaftPunk]

The only video game spiders which have scared me were the ones in Dark Messiah. Those bastards sure like leaping for your face.

I'm with you on this one,i was literally scared to continue in one level because them..


Just look at them o.O

http://shrani.si/f/2E/MJ/4l5GGPtd/12.jpg

[TillEulenspiegel]

Oh God I hope the Grimrock devs actually make that arachnophobia patch... I don't usually get freaked out about video game spiders but Christ.
No kidding. Got to level 3, and I haven't been this disturbed by a spider since SimAnt.

The poison is annoying too, as it seems to require the use of a potion to cure it, or the character will die.

[Winged Nazgul]

Haven't you guys ever read Charlotte's Web? Spiders are our friends.

[NathanH]

Why always giant spiders? It's just cruel. If I wanted to be scared by spiders, I'd just go and find some spiders and be scared of them. I neither need nor want a video game to do this for me.

[Ravelle]

Why always giant spiders? It's just cruel. If I wanted to be scared by spiders, I'd just go and find some spiders and be scared of them. I neither need nor want a video game to do this for me.

It's a standard RPG trope, like the Willhelm scream is for movies. ;p

Enjoying Grimrock so far, I can't stand all the misses though.

I'm currently stuck, I need two keys to open the gate with the portal behind it, I already have one key but can't seem to find the other one, is it in the "enter thy grave" room? because every I try to survive in that room I get butchered.

[alms]

Sneaked a go at the Trial of "The Splatters" (was Confetti Carnival) on the 360 tonight and it's lovely...

Great. I was looking forward to that game. Let's hope the PC version comes out sooner rather than later.

[Splynter]

No kidding. Got to level 3, and I haven't been this disturbed by a spider since SimAnt.



Oh SimAnt. I played that game as a child and had no issues with it. Tried it again last year and was thorougly creeped out.

Add me to the list of people playing Legend of Grimrock. I think I'll have to re-roll my characters, as I put an insectoid mage in my back row who is completely useless. I didn't put any points into the magic trees, as I didn't want to specialize before I found any spells...

[Kodeen]

I'm not playing it yet, but I just got my retail copy of The Last Remnant in the mail, and it's the UK version. Will that cause problems with my US Steam account?

[Anthile]

I'm not playing it yet, but I just got my retail copy of The Last Remnant in the mail, and it's the UK version. Will that cause problems with my US Steam account?

Why would it?

[Kodeen]

Why would it?

I dunno, didn't know if the keys were region-specific or not.

[Drake Sigar]

Trounced my first troll on Grimrock. Found some proper weapons for my fighters, a bow for my thief, and even the wizard is earning his keep with some new ice spells.

[Robert]

Legend of Grimrock!

All-human party with 1 fighter, 1 rogue, 2 mages. I died last night on level 2 to a tree thingy. I've been contemplating starting over with a more robust party with 2 fighters (maybe even minotaur), but decided against it. I will play it smart, dodge and weave and get wristache from dual-spellcasters! Besides, if I start over, I will keep doing that for hours.

[alms]

I dunno, didn't know if the keys were region-specific or not.

No idea if that's your case too, but I remember reading this thread not long ago about someone in europe having bought a retail copy of F:NV in UK and the purchase was cancelled. Here it is:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/forums/showthread.php?3760-Steam-regional-bullshit

[sabrage]

Oh God I hope the Grimrock devs actually make that arachnophobia patch... I don't usually get freaked out about video game spiders but Christ.
Haha. I want to make a .gif out of opening that chain door onto the room full of spiders and immediately closing it again, which I did. I have to say, getting cornered in this game shouldn't be such a death sentence... The enemies attack a lot faster when you aren't hopping around, and that poison is killer (especially if you, like me, neglect to alchem up some antidotes until after you're poisoned.)

[Bobtree]

Kodeen: I too bought the UK retail version of The Last Remnant on Amazon US about a month ago. No problems.

[Drake Sigar]

The strange tentacles slithering up grates and psychic dream messages asking me to decend deeper into Grimrock mountain has convinced me Cthulhu waits at the bottom.

[cosmicolor]

Haha. I want to make a .gif out of opening that chain door onto the room full of spiders and immediately closing it again, which I did.

I have seen such a gif: http://h9.abload.de/img/22331kizdt.gif I would not advise looking at it.


I'm currently stuck, I need two keys to open the gate with the portal behind it, I already have one key but can't seem to find the other one, is it in the "enter thy grave" room? because every I try to survive in that room I get butchered.

Sadly, yes, it's in that room. The best thing to do is to keep moving and absolutely do not let yourself be cornered.


The strange tentacles slithering up grates and psychic dream messages asking me to decend deeper into Grimrock mountain has convinced me Cthulhu waits at the bottom.

There's a secret in the very first room you start in that hints at that, too, as well as having some nice boots in it.

[Flint]

I'm thinking we should start a Grimrock topic soon, considering there's so many of us dungeon crawlers.

[NathanH]

In the middle of invading Earth; looking forward to a terrible ending!

[sabrage]

Wow, Grimrock is a real bastard. I'm glad I finally got past the spiders, but it only gets harder.

[cosmicolor]

Please tell me that they disappear past floor 3.

[sabrage]

Please tell me that they disappear past floor 3.
Replaced by lots and lots of traps.

[cosmicolor]

I'm ok with traps as long as they don't involve the spiders.

[Flint]

Please tell me that they disappear past floor 3.
Yeah.

For a few floors.

Y'know, for just enough for you to have lulled into that sense of security and relief.

[cosmicolor]

Nooooooooooooooooo


Yeah, about that...

Also noooooooooo :( I am beginning to think that this wasn't such a wise purchase, as much as I like it otherwise.

[Drake Sigar]

I'm ok with traps as long as they don't involve the spiders.

Yeah, about that...

[DaftPunk]

Anyone have idea how the heck do i get Bloody Dismemberment to work in SW:Jedi Academy.

I followed this video and nothing,i also tried Bloody Dismemberment "minimod",and nothing happened again.. :(


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24WDpyWKArA&feature=channel&list=UL

http://jediknight3.filefront.com/file/Bloody_Dismemberment;24545

[freefpsgames2012]

I'm playing Tribes Ascend a lot. I even made a video about it, lol!
http://youtu.be/K62DPL8J0QU


http://youtu.be/K62DPL8J0QU

Here's the link if you wanna check out the game:
https://account.hirezstudios.com/tribesascend/?referral=1640703&utm_campaign=email

This is actually my second video, My first one seemed a little amateurish, but I'm pretty happy with this one. I've been playing this game for quite a while now and considering that it's a free FPS, I've been hooked on the gameplay and the price is right :).

[Splynter]

Mother. Fucking. Spider. Floor.

Damn it Grimrock! Why? Not only are they terrifying, but they poison you and seem to attack in swarms. I'm almost done the level, but I need a break...

[Strange_guy]

Playing the xenonauts alpha today. While unfinished content, bugs and instability was expected for an alpha I had hoped to at least reach the laser weapons and the first researchable armour, which talk on the xenonauts forum made sound like it was achievable. But no luck, got crashes when I was most of the way there, tried to repeat my steps from an auto-save only to find the necessary researches not available- probably a bug with loading a save game forgetting some of the required researches I'd done a while ago seeing how some other things had been forgotten like the casualty counter (which is a cool addition I must say, I should have tested if it counted xenonaut pilots and humans killed in ground combat add to it as well). Took a while for me to give up and it was kind of frustrating, and at this very unfinished stage the game wasn't that fun when it worked.

I'd like to say I'll avoid playing it again until beta, but I will probably dip into it again at version 9.3 (bug fixes but also TERROR missions- though the ground combat mission I've done so far have been so tame and even dull I'm not sure they can live up to the name for a few versions- and base defence).

[Kodeen]

No idea if that's your case too, but I remember reading this thread not long ago about someone in europe having bought a retail copy of F:NV in UK and the purchase was cancelled. Here it is:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/forums/showthread.php?3760-Steam-regional-bullshit


Kodeen: I too bought the UK retail version of The Last Remnant on Amazon US about a month ago. No problems.

Thanks for the input, guys. This is a brand new PC and I'm still installing Windows, so I guess we'll see tomorrow.

Did you like it, Bob?

[Duckee]

Right, I am also playing Grimrock so please stop posting spoilers. You bastards! NO hints, no discussions, no nothing till I am done.

What I mean is discuss more general stuff, not specific segments and encounters please?

[SirKicksalot]

Me again posting about You Are Empty. I finished it. What a strange little game! It's maddening to see how close to greatness it got. I am convinced that the enemies single-handedly ruin it. If you faced foes similar to Cryostasis, at least, this would be regarded as a classic, but the shitty cartoony enemies destroy everything.

Anyway, I can't praise the incredible atmosphere and environmental design enough. That damn city... It's so impressive. And oppressive. It feels real in a way few games manage to pull off.

Bonus points for the excellent cutscenes which tell an intriguing backstory...

Next in my 1C Pack/presumably shitty shooter adventures: The Stalin Subway!

[Bobtree]

I played about 30 hours of The Last Remnant so far, and suggest using a gamepad. There's a good game in there hiding behind an awful lot of extraneous cruft and odd design decisions. I wouldn't make a casual recommendation to anyone who hasn't done their homework on it first. It takes a long time warming up and opening play options as you get going, but it gets more interesting once you start finding tougher optional bosses, and it only really gets good when you start losing some fights (thankfully, it autosaves after every battle and area transition, and you can manually save anytime). The battle system has many important elements that just fly by during fights which make it confusing until you get a handle on it, but it isn't quite as luck-based as it first seems. I like that it rewards observation and experimentation, and I can see why it's a somewhat "love it or hate it" title with a small cult following. The TLR wiki (http://lastremnant.wikia.com/wiki/The_Last_Remnant_Wiki_-_The_Last_Remnant_Guide) is handy, and has a PC tweaking page I used to tune up the graphics. It does feel like it's best played with guidebook/forum/walkthrough/etc help, mostly to save time, because there's SO much miscellaneous stuff (and lots of missable content) that isn't really explained in the game, and some mechanics are counter-intuitive. For example, you're meant to fight as few battles as possible, and against as many enemies as you can link together at once for the best rewards. Using skills improves them and unlocks more, but leveling up your battle rank works against you by making enemies tougher (especially bosses). You can skip past many fights if you're careful though.

[NecroKnight]

Legend of Grimrock

[agentorange]

Just finished DX:HR. Very powerful ending, especially (I think, I'm not going to do the reload last save and see all the endings thing) the one I chose. It certainly felt like a worthy successor to DX; while it had some faults, at the same time it improved upon aspects from the original.

Now I think I'll get to finishing my 100+ hour run of New Vegas. Just have to get through Old World Blues (again, fucking non-clouded saves) and Lonesome, then help Caesar lay conquer the West Coast. I'll also probably work on finishing King Arthur, so I can move onto the sequel.

[Althea]

I would be playing Test Drive Unlimited 2's new patch, but the launcher thinks it's acceptable to not know what speed it's downloading at (I worked it out as between 60-100KB/s if lucky), for a patch that's half a gig. I'm not joking.

This is absolutely ridiculous. Atari and Eden Games should be ashamed.

[Heliocentric]

Can't you just download the patch in a browser? Use task manager to check your network activity.

@agentorange what did you choose? For me detonation and legislation were the only 2 I could accept.

[Althea]

Can't you just download the patch in a browser? Use task manager to check your network activity.
No. And my network is fine. The launcher is shit, and it's documented all over the TDU2 forums.

[Jams O'Donnell]

off-topic: I do not like this new almost eyebrowless Althea.

[agentorange]

Can't you just download the patch in a browser? Use task manager to check your network activity.

@agentorange what did you choose? For me detonation and legislation were the only 2 I could accept.

Detonation. Like Jensen says in the end, I didn't think he or the others had the right to choose how to shape the future. My second choice would have been to reveal everything, but I figured in the end the Illuminati would have found some way to cover their asses.

[Althea]

Off-topic: Althea is not parti..

Oh gods the eyebrows D:

*Rushes off to fix this madness*

[DaftPunk]

Anyone have idea how the heck do i get Bloody Dismemberment to work in SW:Jedi Academy.

I followed this video and nothing,i also tried Bloody Dismemberment "minimod",and nothing happened again.. :(


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24WDpyWKArA&feature=channel&list=UL

http://jediknight3.filefront.com/file/Bloody_Dismemberment;24545


Anyone ???

[Heliocentric]

Anyone ???

I just dug jedi academy out of storage.

Does that count? :-)

Edit:auto correct, corrected

[DaftPunk]

Oh it works now,i tried hehe. Looks nice when you cut off someone's head or torso in half haha :D If you want the same,just follow two links i gave you,pretty simple instructions.

[Casimir Effect]

For example, you're meant to fight as few battles as possible, and against as many enemies as you can link together at once for the best rewards. Using skills improves them and unlocks more, but leveling up your battle rank works against you by making enemies tougher (especially bosses). You can skip past many fights if you're careful though.
See now, I'd heard that the best way to keep BR down is to never link multiple opponents on the field as doing so shows the game you're more powerful so it increases your BR. Having a high number of 'Links' on a single field/map apparently makes skills/stats increase quicker so fighting everything is useful.

It's a damn confusing game but I love it. Honestly I'd say to just attack everything and not think about stuff like battle rank. I thought I had gotten it too high and would need to grind like mad to beat the end boss, but when drunk one night I gave it a go and kicked his ass. The wiki is definitely useful though, even if just to explain the intricacies of Formations, Arcana, status effects, and why you should never bother with anything but the 'Unique Leader' types in your party.

[Voon]

Dodged a dragon's breath, got eaten by a tree, killed a guy with a mace, riddled a headless demon-thing with arrows, roasted a pig, worn said pig's head as a hat and lost all my humanity and time in the process. Oh, I sold all my souls for arrows.

Fuck you, Dark Souls

[Scumbag]

The Witcher: May as well try to finish it someday. Cynically going through town with the thought "Who can I shag?"

[Heliocentric]

The Witcher: May as well try to finish it someday. Cynically going through town with the thought "Who can I shag?"

And in the game?

[DaftPunk]

Guys,are there any similar games on pc like SW:Jedi Academy ? And i mean similar in terms that you fight your way through missions,not shoot :d Something like DMC or Ninja gaiden on consoles..

[CitizenDickbag]

Anyone ???

"-In JK2 you could just type 'g_saberrealisticcombat X' and get dismemberment, but in JA
this is write protected. this means you need to go manually into each of the NPC files
and change it. (which i did)"
This is actually not true! You can change write protected console variables in Jedi Academy if you change them with the +set command line option when launching the game. I never installed a blood mod but it's great fun for just normal play.


Guys,are there any similar games on pc like SW:Jedi Academy ? And i mean similar in terms that you fight your way through missions,not shoot :d Something like DMC or Ninja gaiden on consoles..
Darksiders is pretty rad, and DMC4 has a not-awful PC port.

[Casimir Effect]

Guys,are there any similar games on pc like SW:Jedi Academy ? And i mean similar in terms that you fight your way through missions,not shoot :d Something like DMC or Ninja gaiden on consoles..
You mean something Devil May Cry-ish like this (http://store.steampowered.com/app/45700/)

[CitizenDickbag]

I wish we'd get a PC port of Bayonetta. :/

[Heliocentric]

Guys,are there any similar games on pc like SW:Jedi Academy ? And i mean similar in terms that you fight your way through missions,not shoot :d Something like DMC or Ninja gaiden on consoles..

Ya.

Gothic 1,2,3,4(different devs) and Arcania
Dark Messiah of might and magic
Overlord (more about unit management but your brawling is key)
Bioshock 2 with a pure drill/plasmid set of gene tonics.
Mass effect 2&3 as vanguard
Eldar scrolls (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim)

Batman: Arkham Asylum (& city)
Deus ex baton/sword+ regeneration

Fallout 3&New Vegas (super sledge=splat)
Bastion (pike+ mortar for me, don't worry about aiming just get splash immunity and drop it on your own head)
Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines
Prince of persia:sands of time et al.
Assassin's Creed (I suggest starting with # 2)
Psyconauts
The witcher
Amnesia (no shooting or fighting)
Lego <insert franchise here> (I like batman)

That'll do to start with.

[DaftPunk]

Hm thats not what i had in mind,i had something more like Severance:Blade Of Darkness or Onimusha 3/DMC 3 (Yes we have those on pc ! Despite horrible graphcis gmaeplay is quite challenging and good). I need also something older because of my 3800+ AMD and x1550 ATI Radeon .. :D But its ok,i'll google out something.

[Heliocentric]

So lock on melee combat with an emphasis on combos, high mobility and rhythm lead combat?
Darksiders, Devil may cry 4, sonic generations, zeno clash, plain sight, oni,

[Giaddon]

Hm thats not what i had in mind,i had something more like Severance:Blade Of Darkness or Onimusha 3/DMC 3 (Yes we have those on pc ! Despite horrible graphcis gmaeplay is quite challenging and good). I need also something older because of my 3800+ AMD and x1550 ATI Radeon .. :D But its ok,i'll google out something.

Slower paced, but online and awesome (and free) is Vindictus (http://vindictus.nexon.net/). Combat video here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHWrkoy6b-g).

[DaftPunk]

Damn i feel so nerdy,because i know every game you suggested me and i hoped you will tell me one that i didn't know,maybe some older title which was sleeper hit or something haha :D

Otherwise i'm going to stop playing Jedi Academy,i played it and played it,hoping it will get better after some time but thats not happening,not even i have already completed 12-13 missions.

[Tikey]

I've decided that I'm going to finish Zeno Clash once and for all. I'm past the half of the game so It shouldn't be much trouble.

[Scumbag]

And in the game?

You need flowers for that

[Casimir Effect]

Damn i feel so nerdy,because i know every game you suggested me and i hoped you will tell me one that i didn't know,maybe some older title which was sleeper hit or something haha :D

Otherwise i'm going to stop playing Jedi Academy,i played it and played it,hoping it will get better after some time but thats not happening,not even i have already completed 12-13 missions.
Here (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/die_by_the_sword_expansion)you go, Die By The Sword. I can barely remember playing it but remember it as interesting with a very different way of controlling combat.
Or you could try Hunted: Demon Forge or Demon Stone.

[sabrage]

Damn I was stuck on level 4 of Grimrock for a long time. Does it bother anyone else that the numbers go up as you go further down?

[Althea]

Hunted: Demon Forge
Which is not particularly like any of the games mentioned so far.

Hunted: The Demon's Forge is basically a co-op game with two different styles of combat (ranged and melée), but it's cover-based. The nickname "Gears of Warcraft" sums it up rather well.

[Casimir Effect]

Which is not particularly like any of the games mentioned so far.

Hunted: The Demon's Forge is basically a co-op game with two different styles of combat (ranged and melée), but it's cover-based. The nickname "Gears of Warcraft" sums it up rather well.
It was just a long shot as the guy seems to have played everything else. And melée-bashy man didn't seem to need cover that much during the first hour (all I played before better things came along).

[cosmicolor]

Slower paced, but online and awesome (and free) is Vindictus (http://vindictus.nexon.net/). Combat video here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHWrkoy6b-g).

Just be careful of the grind, I found Vindictus to be really nasty with that and I think people I played with agreed with me.

As well as Grimrock I've been playing through Divinity II, sort of aimlessly wandering around uncovering quests and sniping at things with bow and arrow.

[Kodeen]

Damn I was stuck on level 4 of Grimrock for a long time. Does it bother anyone else that the numbers go up as you go further down?

All numbers must go up. This is the way of games.

[Voon]

Hm thats not what i had in mind,i had something more like Severance:Blade Of Darkness or Onimusha 3/DMC 3 (Yes we have those on pc ! Despite horrible graphcis gmaeplay is quite challenging and good). I need also something older because of my 3800+ AMD and x1550 ATI Radeon .. :D But its ok,i'll google out something.

Wait, wait..... Onimusha 3's on PC?

[Tikey]

If it's the one with Jean Reno, it is. I played it just because of Jean Reno. He makes anything better.

[Anthile]

Sooo, I finally finished Fallout: New Vegas with all the DLC, explored all the locations, recruited all followers, did most of the quests, collected all the snowglobes, acquired untold riches, supposedly wiped out most of the wildlife, killed hundreds of people and all that took me only about 156 hours.

http://i.imgur.com/EK0BA.jpg

[Voon]

If it's the one with Jean Reno, it is. I played it just because of Jean Reno. He makes anything better.

Jean Reno and Takeshi Kaneshiro, to be precise. I wonder how much Capcom paid to get them on the games...

Awesome game tbh

[Giaddon]

Wait, wait..... Onimusha 3's on PC?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/6570/?snr=1_7_suggest__13

[DaftPunk]

To bad its awful port,its on pair with Resident Evil 4 and Devil May Cry 3.

[Bobtree]

See now, I'd heard that the best way to keep BR down is to never link multiple opponents on the field as doing so shows the game you're more powerful so it increases your BR. Having a high number of 'Links' on a single field/map apparently makes skills/stats increase quicker so fighting everything is useful.

It's a damn confusing game but I love it. Honestly I'd say to just attack everything and not think about stuff like battle rank. I thought I had gotten it too high and would need to grind like mad to beat the end boss, but when drunk one night I gave it a go and kicked his ass. The wiki is definitely useful though, even if just to explain the intricacies of Formations, Arcana, status effects, and why you should never bother with anything but the 'Unique Leader' types in your party.

The Wiki (http://lastremnant.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_Rank) (see Battle Rank Strategy) indicates you should make fights as few and as tough as you can manage. Your "never link" rumor is apparently from the Xbox version, which has much steeper difficulty. Ignoring BR management is also supposedly much more forgiving with the better balanced difficulty of the revamped PC edition.

I appreciate the anti-grinding game design because there is so much content that you really don't want to just windshield every enemy in your way. I skip as many fights as possible by observing enemy behavior/states (they may randomly be cowards or aggressors), sneaking around or behind them, running out of their line of sight, switching zones, and using timeshift to outrun those that become perma-aggro'd. If you rely on the fast-forward battle mode a lot, you're probably just fighting too much.

I like games with a long learning curve, but TLR's inherent beginner confusion is mostly just poor design and lack of polish. It really could have been so much tighter and clearer and better paced. I don't love it enough to overlook the issues, unlike say Vagrant Story which is just poorly explained (pick weapons by type, then element, then affinity, it's that simple!) but brilliant regardless.

[TailSwallower]

maybe some older title which was sleeper hit or something haha :D

Rune (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rune_%28video_game%29)? I've only ever played MP at LANs where it's fast-paced melee madness, but I'm not sure how it is in SP.

[Bobtree]

Jean Reno and Takeshi Kaneshiro, to be precise. I wonder how much Capcom paid to get them on the games...

Awesome game tbh

I thought the original Onimusha was very good. A minor console classic. I skipped the second, but the third was painfully stupid and not really interesting enough to recommend. Playable, but highly overrated IMHO.

[Tikey]

But Jean Reno is in it!

[Splynter]

Damn I was stuck on level 4 of Grimrock for a long time. Does it bother anyone else that the numbers go up as you go further down?

Think of it this way. If you were one of the prisoners thrown into the dungeon, how would you number the floors on your own map? You have no idea how many floors there are when you first begin, so starting at a high number would require a completely arbitrary choice which would almost certainly be wrong. You'd probably start with 1 and count from there, or 0 if you were a programming rogue. Alternatively, you could start at 0 and count down through negatives, but that's functionally the same thing.

From a game design standpoint, if you started the numbering at the highest you'd be giving the players an idea of how many floors they'll be playing through, not letting them flounder as seems to be a main design point for Grimrock.

[Casimir Effect]

The Wiki (http://lastremnant.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_Rank) (see Battle Rank Strategy) indicates you should make fights as few and as tough as you can manage. Your "never link" rumor is apparently from the Xbox version, which has much steeper difficulty. Ignoring BR management is also supposedly much more forgiving with the better balanced difficulty of the revamped PC edition.

I appreciate the anti-grinding game design because there is so much content that you really don't want to just windshield every enemy in your way. I skip as many fights as possible by observing enemy behavior/states (they may randomly be cowards or aggressors), sneaking around or behind them, running out of their line of sight, switching zones, and using timeshift to outrun those that become perma-aggro'd. If you rely on the fast-forward battle mode a lot, you're probably just fighting too much.
I've read the wiki and would be inclined to trust it were it not for circumstantial evidence. I notice my BR going up faster if I link large groups together. The lack of knowledge about the game mechanics are actually one of my favourite things about it. There are many rumours but very few knowns, and that adds a nice sense of mystery to the game. For example, no one knows exactly what the unique attribute each character has does (the best guess is that it relates to 'Reassess' and 'Play By Ear').

This is about the only JRPG (and possibly RPG) where the grinding doesn't bother me, in fact I enjoy it because I love the battle system. It's quick to load, quick to play out, visually exciting, varied, and the (optional) quick-time events make it more engaging than most turn-based JRPG systems. Also, because so many people are in your party, someone usually increases in a stat or Art after each fight meaning you have the kind of rapid strength progression found in Diablo-type games. Hell, I throw this game on when between games just to waste a few hours beating up little beasties or trying to take down one of the mega-bosses (one day I'll beat the Jhana Royals).

The beginning is confusing, far more so than it should be. So much is also lacking when it comes to explaining the different types of character (especially how on PC certain types are entirely useless) or how various Arts are used or how the Arcana Arts are obtained. But by playing it you gradually learn what's going on, and the wiki is great as well. And by the end you know what's going on so well that the NewGame+ mode is pretty tempting.

[squirrelfanatic]

At the moment, I am giving Baldur's Gate II another go. I started a new game with two self-made characters - an old geezer that is a mage and SPOILER the Bhaalchild /SPOILER and his trusty if maybe simple-minded Half-Orc Barbarian guard. Still a lot of fun after all this time. The game is huge, there are still sidequests that I hadn't done in the past (or just forgot about).

But... Gnnaaargh! I teamed up with Keldorn, who I had passed by in past playthroughs, made him my party leader and main tank and gave him all of my good resistance stuff. Those of you who know a bit about this character's background plot/quest might already have guessed where this is going. SPOILER Yes, I agreed to come over for a visit to his house and yes, I helped him with his little problem and YES, HE TOTALLY TOOK ALL OF STUFF. FUN TIMES!!! /SPOILER What is wrong with (fantasy) people these days?

[Nalano]

What is wrong with (fantasy) people these days?

They act like player characters?

[Lambchops]

Offspring Fling is rather lovely.

If you're sick of puzzle platformers then i'd probably steer clear though! Unless it's just tying said puzzle platformer to some sort of narrative that irks you in which case you might find the simplicity of "save your offspring" refreshing.

It's one of those games where part of the challenge is not just completing the level but doing it in a fast time is also worthwhile. Unlocks are generous (I'm slightly over halfway through the game now an have unlocked all the levels on the selection screen. I was fairly fastidious in getting the bonus unlocks from completing the levels in set times but even if you choose not to do this I couldn't imagine facing too many roadblocks in progressing to new levels) with extra available for fast times. I think I may be reaching the point where completing the level is enough for me as occasionally I'm finding the odd level a bit finicky to do quickly but to be honest I don't think it really matters when or if you reach this point, the levels and the challenges they present are varied enough to sustain interest and fun regardless of your desire for high score chasing.

Also the soundtrack is lovely, chirpy upbeat stuff.

I'd recommend it, well worth the 8 dollar asking price and you can try it out to see if it's your thing or not (http://retroaffect.com/offspringfling/).

[Nalano]

If you're sick of puzzle platformers then i'd probably steer clear though!

I was just looking at the new releases on Steam and dear lord, if it isn't a platformer it's a tower defense game. What gives, people?

[DaftPunk]

These days people are without imagination,sad but true.

[Althea]

Gave Blacklight: Retribution a go. Seems pretty good, but it's one of those Rent-a-Gun games that I just cannot ever be fudged with. Shame, really, because the gameplay is great and so are the visuals.

Test Drive Unlimited 2 is also now patched, and whilst I've had a few issues with my character's hair colour, I'm... well, not particularly impressed by this new patch. Feels a bit smoother and better, but the new clothes and cosmetics aren't particularly wondrous (and largely LOOK IT'S THE ATARI LOGO ON EVERYTHING), and the game still has a hard-on for women in heels (and slightly odd figures). Sigh.

[Casimir Effect]

Balls. Trying to play Sacrifice again is harder than anticipated. Game starts off fine then becomes a jerky mess with graphical glitches. Seems to be due to more AI-controlled things appearing, though it could just be related to time spent in game or amount of map travelled. Found a forum post on GOG with a fix so let's give that a go sometime (fix supposes the problem is with modern nVidia cards/drivers).

[squirrelfanatic]

They act like player characters?Touché. :)

[Heliocentric]

Balls. Trying to play Sacrifice again is harder than anticipated. .Does it make me a bastard that it runs like butter for me? With no effort whatsoever.

To be fair, i've not tried it since win 7 and it couldn't cope with widescreen resolutions.

[DaftPunk]

I just remembered that MATRIX:Path Of Neo is quite fun beat'em up game,similar to DMC/NG,only you're fighting with fists and shit :3 Quite badass feeling,yes yes.

[Aurelia]

I've mostly played Journey this week. Astonishing game. Beautiful, emotional, life-affirming. A wonderful thing that everyone should experience at least once, I say. Yes I do.

[Sketch]

I just remembered that MATRIX:Path Of Neo is quite fun beat'em up game,similar to DMC/NG,only you're fighting with fists and shit :3 Quite badass feeling,yes yes.


I remember buying that after watching 1 gameplay video and not reading a single review telling me it was an average to good game, and I enjoyed every minute of it. It seemed quite long too.

[SirKicksalot]

I just remembered that MATRIX:Path Of Neo is quite fun beat'em up game,similar to DMC/NG,only you're fighting with fists and shit :3 Quite badass feeling,yes yes.

I recently rewatched the movies and reinstalled this. Couldn't play it with my 360 controller but it's good enough with the keyboard. The combat system is deep and feels good. The physics and destruction were awesome at the time. Not sure if taking the piss and breaking the fourth wall in some sections was a good decision...

[sopabuena]

This is not a PC game (but it is, at heart): Max Payne Mobile on the iOS is joy to play. It looks and sounds amazing and the touch controls are as good as they get. The more casual aproach (like optional autoaming and easier difficulty) fits the game perfectly, it's a great way to revive it.
If you, like me, had a bad expirience with the GTA3 port, take the leap of faith and get this anyway, it's only $3 and totally worth it.
I may agree with you that mobile gaming is for casual games, but this is most likely the first "full" game I'm actually enjoying, and I've tried many. Also I'm probably getting old but it's impressive to be running a game like Max Payne at it's fullest on a phone, I still remember my old PC struggling to get it running (the phone heats up quite a bit, mind you)

[Fumarole]

Damn I was stuck on level 4 of Grimrock for a long time. Does it bother anyone else that the numbers go up as you go further down?Did someone mention levels?

http://i1250.photobucket.com/albums/hh538/Fumarole/level.gif

[Voon]

Sooo, I finally finished Fallout: New Vegas with all the DLC, explored all the locations, recruited all followers, did most of the quests, collected all the snowglobes, acquired untold riches, supposedly wiped out most of the wildlife, killed hundreds of people and all that took me only about 156 hours.

With the Wild Wasteland perk?


I just remembered that MATRIX:Path Of Neo is quite fun beat'em up game,similar to DMC/NG,only you're fighting with fists and shit :3 Quite badass feeling,yes yes.

Never played Path of Neo but I did play Enter the Matrix on the PS2. Fun game but could've been better.

[Casimir Effect]

Does it make me a bastard that it runs like butter for me? With no effort whatsoever.

To be fair, i've not tried it since win 7 and it couldn't cope with widescreen resolutions.
The reason given for the problems is interaction with recent nVidia drivers and Win7 (something to do with wanting DirectX 7), so if you're using an ATi card or XP it should be fine. Compatability mode did nothing unfortunately so now it's up to a forum tweak involving some nVidia Inspector program.
Annoying that the game only goes up to 1600x1200 but I can live with that - everything looks pretty still.

[Heliocentric]

Went to play Company of heroes, but for some reason its not patched itself and its decided the out of date files are corrupted*, so its starting from scratch.

So I actually bothered clicking on the windows 7 "games" library, noticed the Various infinity engine games I got from Gamers Gate, booted up Icewind Dale, generated a party of Cleric/rangers (with a Paladin Diplomat and a thief trap remover/recon) That's right mama jama, raw cheese.

See, in infinity engine games I'd rather just kick back and let the combat win itself, while having a few fun toys to pop off, they will never be balanced, and they will never be strategic, so why not just get stomping or get to the meaty conversations in Planescape?

After patching up PS:T to super duper widescreen (for my fiancée to try... eventually) I noticed TOEE, a game despite praise I had similarly dismissed as a mindless stomp-a-thon despite the dubious honour of being an example of a "proper RPG" by Wizardry. Even the pathetically easy first fight showed the game was prepared to wait for me to think about what to do next, turn based and quickly resolved, I missed the option to multiclass From the off, but I don't doubt patches and fixes add stuff like that.

But yeah, its actually rather pretty, the 3D character models really make a difference to the ease on the eye. So yeah, quite excited to play that.

*or they actually are corrupted, no idea.

[Blackcompany]

Legend of Grimrock. Fantastic game. Just finished Witcher 2, Roche playthrough. Going for a Scoiatel playthrough when the Extended Edition comes out this month. Both are great games, however, and I like the strong emphasis on simple survival in Grimrock.

[Fumarole]

Legend of Grimrock has got me by the short and curlies and refuses to let go.

Fucking crabs.

[Scumbag]

Legend of Grimrock has got me by the short and curlies and refuses to let go.

Fucking crabs.

The mental images, plus Grimrock crabs replacing the itchy crabs.

[hippocrat]

Limited to Asus Eee PC play for a several months, so I'm playing Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic, Blocks that Matter, Braid, Terraria, Armageddon Empires, and Solium Infernum (with five meat-whistles). The longer I can hold out with the GoGs and low-spec titles the better my eventual desktop PC will be.

[SirKicksalot]

Bad shooters from the 1C Pack:

The Stalin Subway is really bad and really broken. The difficulty is absurd even on easy and enemies sometimes spawn behind you. They have perfect accuracy and are very hard to kill but you die very fast. The level design is really bad, I spent 20 minutes trying to find an exit. The physics are hilariously broken and I died twice thanks to crates and furniture thrown around by poltergeists.

The Stalin Subway - Red Veil is more of the same but it looks better and I think the physics are fixed. Also you play as a woman. I guess there's a market for such punishing shooters.

Snajper, aka Sniper: Path of Vengeance in the West. From the developers of Mortyr! It's using the Lithtech engine. The idiotic dirty dialogue got a chuckle out of me. When I started the game I was presented with a screen where I had to put points into various weapon specializations. The screen had only acronyms for these weapons so I had no idea what I was doing. Then the enemies spotted me from halfway across the ugly, bland map and killed me in two seconds. nope.jpg

Vivisector, a Serious Sam style game with a Dr. Moreau skin, from the developers of Cryostasis. This one's not that bad, based on the first three levels. Looks like the early Cryengine prototypes, which might have something to do with the developers that left the company and went to Crytek. The weapons so far don't feel that great. You move extremely fast. There's a scoring system. The gore is easily the highlight of the game - you can shoot off chunks of flesh from the enemies and expose the entire skeleton. I might play some more.

[shaydeeadi]

Just started the first Witcher. Must of walked around Vizima outskirts aout 20 times to sort them all out. The swamps are kicking my ass at the moment, considering running back to the city to do some other stuff for a bit.
Actually quite enjoying the combat too, took me about 5 minutes to get my head around the rhythm of the clicks and stances but I think more rolling is needed to proceed.

[Voon]

Duck Souls again. I always tell myself that when the game's giving you cheap shots, so must you

[alms]

I've been rotating through: EDGE, which is potentially a very good game (some levels have ideas just so cool) but marred by inaccurate controls that make it frustrating to play as difficulty ramps up. A pad definitely helps here but does not solve the problem entirely. There's something very weird going on there, for some reason it's easier to stay on edge using the dpad than the analog stick. I'm only about past the half mark of the normal levels and I'm already at the point where I can hardly play 2 or 3 levels in a row... and that's without even paying attention to making a decent time.

Titan Attacks, your ship starts so underpowered that the beginning is a bit of a chore (this is the only shooter I've played in recent years where you actually have to time your shots right), but gets better later.

And Eets. The cuteness in the game is well made but it's a bit hollow, doesn't ring true as in WoG. And the puzzles... can't quite put my finger on what it makes them so, but they're just uninteresting.

[TailSwallower]

Played some Dungeons of Dredmor. It still hasn't grabbed me in the same way as the Binding of Isaac, but I think it's mainly because I have no idea what most of the skills do and what most of the items are for. Don't want to go to a wiki either because that tends to ruin the fun too much.

So, the middleground option: Anyone want to recommend me some starting skills and/or give me a couple of tips?

[Doodier]

TailSwallower are you playing with permadeath? If not, I think you can just go with any skills that sounds fun and/or powerful and just save/load.

[Heliocentric]

My son builds massive town in Minecraft.

I flood it with people (who go inside at night) and chickens (who answer to no law). Sounds dull? According to my son's response I am a cross between a comedy genius and a terrorist.

[alms]

chickens (who answer to no law)

Turns out Minecraft's a very realistic game after all.

[Rauten]

My son builds massive town in Minecraft.

I flood it with people (who go inside at night) and chickens (who answer to no law). Sounds dull? According to my son's response I am a cross between a comedy genius and a terrorist.

Needs more cat.

[DaftPunk]

Add communistic secret base!

[Heliocentric]

Add communistic secret base!

Needs more dancing bear.

[cosmicolor]

Played some Dungeons of Dredmor. It still hasn't grabbed me in the same way as the Binding of Isaac, but I think it's mainly because I have no idea what most of the skills do and what most of the items are for. Don't want to go to a wiki either because that tends to ruin the fun too much.

So, the middleground option: Anyone want to recommend me some starting skills and/or give me a couple of tips?

The Psionic tree is super rad to start off with, it starts with a push skill for survivability and a few points into it you get a really nice healing spell. The Big Game Hunter tree is also great to rush into a bit, since you get diggle minions to soak up damage and keep you safe with, which works pretty well for the first few floors. It's a good idea to take either smithing or archaeology with every build too (moreso archaeology if you're not going melee) since those skills also raise your trap level or something when you put points into them, which allows you more of a chance of deactivating traps, which means free XP for you.

[Scumbag]

Just started the first Witcher. Must of walked around Vizima outskirts aout 20 times to sort them all out. The swamps are kicking my ass at the moment, considering running back to the city to do some other stuff for a bit.
Actually quite enjoying the combat too, took me about 5 minutes to get my head around the rhythm of the clicks and stances but I think more rolling is needed to proceed.

Also doing this, but its more picking up after leaving for a long time. Combat bored me when I first played it, but once you get to the point where you fight large packs of mobs as opposed to one or two it gets interesting and a slight more tactical.
Swamps are a pain.
"Hi, I'm a flower made of DIE! Do you want the special? Its made of DEATH!"
"Screw him! We are the wyvern gang. Cant pick us off one at a time? Awwww! Too bad! Have 6 Drowners and 2 Drowned dead on the side."

[cosmicolor]

Igni works really well on the flowers, as well as loading up on potions. Always load up on potions, make as many as you can, every day.

[vinraith]

I'm still trying to find the right mod mix for New Vegas. Project Nevada and DFB Encounters are definitely in, been dabbling with Nevada Nights. I like the light level changes and the weather, but the cartoonishly bright color palette is kind of jarring. I can't seem to find anything in the settings to tone that down, am I missing something?

[The JG Man]

After watching my housemate play enough of Starcraft 2 to encourage me to play some of the RTS I own, I just tried a 3vs3 match on DOW2: Retribution. Our team surrendered after what felt like forever of playing. I'm not sure I did anything too wrong, but I remember that I always find these types of games overwhelming. Still enjoy them, but more "I need to be facing bots" kinda RTS player. Ah well. I'll try playing it a bit more over the next *X* of time, see if I can get into it. Failing that, I'll just get involved with the next big RTS thing that comes out. I do like the genre, I just have never really got into it online, apart from CnC3 for a little bit. Unfortunately, that game sucked. So yeah, what I'm saying is if anyone would like to play some Retribution with me against bots, that could be fun!

Also been playing Mass Effect 3 multiplayer like the world is ending the next day. Surprisingly addictive, but I sense I may be starting to flag on it a little. When the best way to get points is to grind the same map, there's little variety, but doing anything else just seems like a loss of potential time.

[shaydeeadi]

"Hi, I'm a flower made of DIE! Do you want the special? Its made of DEATH!"
"Screw him! We are the wyvern gang. Cant pick us off one at a time? Awwww! Too bad! Have 6 Drowners and 2 Drowned dead on the side."

Makes me glad I'm not the only one suffering, those pink plants are horriffic with their poison arrows, I've been ignoring most of them and sprinting a-b, then if you do dare kill any, they respawn as soon a you meditate! Kinda wish I played it on easy so I could just soak up the story now but the game is fun so I wont do anything drastic like restart.
I'm making as many potions as I can, the Igni isn't helping much!!

[cosmicolor]

Have you levelled into it a bit? Igni on its on, yeah that's not much help, but the charged version does more damage to them.

[agentorange]

I'm still trying to find the right mod mix for New Vegas. Project Nevada and DFB Encounters are definitely in, been dabbling with Nevada Nights. I like the light level changes and the weather, but the cartoonishly bright color palette is kind of jarring. I can't seem to find anything in the settings to tone that down, am I missing something?

Here are a list of my default mods, ones I never play without; don't know if they are what you are looking for, I tend not to use any massive game changers like Project Nevada:

Weapon Mods Expanded (http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=39651) - Allows you to mod legendary weapons, and implements a bunch of new mods for weapons that didn't have any (all well balanced, no overpowered god shit).

Better Ammo Crafting (http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=35321) - Allows you to craft every type of ammo available in the game. Also gives you some new options for creating ammo materials.

Weapon Retexture Project (http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=38285) - Near professional quality texture work. Goes beyond just HD-fying the textures, but doesn't stray into silly anime shit and the like.

Detailed Normals (http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=38196) - A very light weight landscape normal map enhancer. The improvement in quality with this mod is stunning, considering how small it is when compared to some similar mods (there's one that reach into the gigs), and I noticed almost no drop in performance.

Then there are some fun ones, like EVE (http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=42666); it improves and modifies critical kill animations - in particular energy weapons kills. If you don't think Fallout is complete without plasma weapons turning people into goo covered skeletons, get it.

[shaydeeadi]

I've put a few points into it, perhaps not enough. There is 2 types of those plants right? The red ones go down like a 2 dollar whore but the pink ones are brutal with flying stuff and way more HP. I'll be leaving it for a couple days due to work, but I have also retreated to the city to follow some leads etc since I couldn't find the boy and got frustrated, which I think I need to do to progress. Will return to the swamp shortly, preferably with more points in igni. See what those stone things do as well.

[Althea]

If you find yourself stuck in one bit of TW1, just go elsewhere and do other quests if possible. You level up quick enough and the enemies don't vary too much so you should never really get stuck for long.

[DaftPunk]

Still playing Matrix Path Of Neo,its kinda button masher even as i play on master difficulty haha :D I hope it opens up as i progress,so it will take some more skill to play.

[Ravelle]

After watching my housemate play enough of Starcraft 2 to encourage me to play some of the RTS I own, I just tried a 3vs3 match on DOW2: Retribution. Our team surrendered after what felt like forever of playing. I'm not sure I did anything too wrong, but I remember that I always find these types of games overwhelming. Still enjoy them, but more "I need to be facing bots" kinda RTS player. Ah well. I'll try playing it a bit more over the next *X* of time, see if I can get into it. Failing that, I'll just get involved with the next big RTS thing that comes out. I do like the genre, I just have never really got into it online, apart from CnC3 for a little bit. Unfortunately, that game sucked. So yeah, what I'm saying is if anyone would like to play some Retribution with me against bots, that could be fun!

Also been playing Mass Effect 3 multiplayer like the world is ending the next day. Surprisingly addictive, but I sense I may be starting to flag on it a little. When the best way to get points is to grind the same map, there's little variety, but doing anything else just seems like a loss of potential time.

I'm a huge Warhammer fan so I mostly played the DoW games for it's story and manly action though didn't like the online mode of DoW that much. It's totally different than what I'm used to. The first time I tried it online I got labeled horrible names because I was just trying to figure out what was going on and what I was suppose to do. I do enjoy the Last Stand mode though. I'm more of a build stuff and poop those units kind of guy, though I still suck at those haha.

ME3 is still fun, really hope Bioware keeps coming with the minor DLC updates. A new enemy to fight would be neat, like th Rachni or a new mode such as Husk Mode, thousands of husks coming for ya.

[Scumbag]

If you find yourself stuck in one bit of TW1, just go elsewhere and do other quests if possible. You level up quick enough and the enemies don't vary too much so you should never really get stuck for long.

Doing so right now, running about the city finishing off all the loose ends I find.
Really like how its questionable who stands where when it comes to trusting people. SPOILERISH Something seems very wrong with the PI dude. Killed Ramsmeat to move things forward but get the feeling something bad will happen to the whores at the brothel now, also feel like I'm being used somehow. Really have no idea about the Kalkstein guy either. He seems harmless, but I cant tell if its a ruse or he is just so obsessed with his work that he cant see what he is doing.

[Tikey]

Still playing Matrix Path Of Neo,its kinda button masher even as i play on master difficulty haha :D I hope it opens up as i progress,so it will take some more skill to play.

You pass from the three left clicks combo to the six left clicks combos. Which is funny because you also block with left click. Meaning that you wont stop clicking until the game ends.
It's one of the worst games I've ever played and I'd replay it again any time. It's stupidly brilliant.

[DaftPunk]

Wouldn't call it worst game ever,its fun and thats what matters.

[Tikey]

It's ugly, badly made, stupid, incoherent, glitchy and with poor mechanics.
But yes, It's fun, but I doubt it is by design. It's the only game I can think of that it's so bad it's good.

Did you get to the part with the ants?

[DaftPunk]

It's ugly, badly made, stupid, incoherent, glitchy and with poor mechanics.
But yes, It's fun, but I doubt it is by design. It's the only game I can think of that it's so bad it's good.

Did you get to the part with the ants?


Ants ? o.O

First time i played it back then i came to the part where you need to rescure keymaker in a dark tower or something,to that point it was quite decent..but whats with ants,in matrix universe xD

[Tikey]

hahaha. You'll know what I'm talking about when you see it.

[DaftPunk]

Haha damn i want to youtube those ants but don't want to spoil stuff xD

[cosmicolor]

I bought Divine Divinity on GoG recently so I've been on that, along with Divinity 2. Really liking Divine Divinity's atmosphere and music, Larian did a good job on both of those, as well as the writing.

[Althea]

I bought Divine Divinity on GoG recently so I've been on that, along with Divinity 2. Really liking Divine Divinity's atmosphere and music, Larian did a good job on both of those, as well as the writing.
The music's by a hired composer called Kirill Pokrovsky. Here's his site if you're interested (http://www.kirillpokrovsky.com/).

[cosmicolor]

Cool, thanks, will have to give that site a look-see.

[Casimir Effect]

Sacrifice works! Can I get a woop woop?

Wot I did (for those who are interested):

1) Install the most recent drivers (266.58) from the nVidia website. (They do not appear to currently be available through Windows update.)
2) Download the program Nvidia Inspector, which allows you to set up custom profiles per game (like Sacrifice). Nvidia Inpector is available from links here: http://majorgeeks.com/NVIDIA_Inspector_d6630.html
3) Extract the files in the download to a directory, and run the executable nvidiaInspector. This will open up a dialog giving various health information about your system.
4) In the middle right-ish of the dialog, to the right of where it list your driver version, is a button with a wrench icon. click it to set up a new profile (you may prompted to allow the program to make changes.)
5) Create a new profile by clicking the small orange 'star' icon on the taskbar at the top of the new window. Name it whatever you wish
6) In the section of buttons immediately to the right of the new profile button section, there is an "Add Programs to profile" button. Click it, and add your Sacrifice executable to the profile. (Mine, for example, is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\sacrifice\sacrifice.e xe)
7) A few button sections to the right is button with an icon of a magnifying glass over some gears. Click this to discover extra options (this may take a moment).
8) Scroll down to the "Unknown" section of values. There will be a setting with the name PRE_D3D_COMPATIBILITY_BITS (0x0090F680). Either using the dropdown or typing it in manually, set the value to 0x00000040. (If selecting from the dropdown, there will be a list of game titles that should use this setting.)
9) Apply the settings, close the inspector, and use your Nvidia compatible copy of Sacrifice!

Copy&Pasted from gog.com forums, ignore step 1 as appropriate

[Heliocentric]

does that enable wide screen?

[Casimir Effect]

What wide screen problems do you have? I mean, the game naturally offers resolutions like 1600x1200 which is what I'm running it on. I think that's the maximum you're given but if you want to go higher then widescreengamingforum.com has a regedit fix to open things like 1900x1200 or 1900x1080, although with this there is apparently an issue with objects occasionally going invisible at certain distances.
This fix is just for the nVidia problem where the game drops to about 1fps.

[Althea]

1600x1200 isn't widescreen, though. It's 4:3.

[Heliocentric]

Back to playing 1440*1080 I guess :)

Played the first level of Trine with my fiancée, she told me it was a 'Disney Game' waiting for its movie to come out, hard to disagree really. Reminds me of the 16bit Aladdin loads tbh.

I need a 2nd dual analogue pad so i can wrangle my 8 year old into playing it with us and we can play it "as the developers intended", because a whole bunch of the later puzzles make so much more sense with 3 of you playing.

Ahah, soon my evil plans will bare fruit!

[Casimir Effect]

1600x1200 isn't widescreen, though. It's 4:3.
That is a very good point and also thank you for reminding me I need some sleep. I may experiment with that registry hack then and see how it goes. But to be honest I'm not that bothered playing something in stretchy-vision unless it makes me feel ill.

[Memph]

Mass Effect 3 multiplayer. I started a 2nd renegade-that-ballsed-up-everything-in-prior-games playthrough on Insanity, but on startup always find myself craving the far more frantic team defense of MP. It may not last, but I haven't had this much fun playing co-op since L4D. Bonus that in PUGS noone else can speak, those rare few that do have to use a mic and manage to be polite.

[sonson]

Two excellent games for me recently:

Had a week off work and completed and enjoyed considerably The Guardian of Light, a truly excellent, polished and enjoyable game, with consistently great and exciting set pieces. Every level different, yet it feels very familiar in terms of mechanics whilst also presenting old cliches in a form which is inventive and far more enjoyable e.g boss fights, screen chases, traps etc. Highly recommend giving it a go if you haven't, it's just the most lovley and pleasant of experiences. Obligatory Arachnaphobe warning though; there's lots of them and they're very swarmy/fast/come out of fucking nowhere.

Then bought Saints Row: The Third from the bargain bucket the other week, having cared not a jot for the hype beforehand or even figured it as remotley my kind of thing, but I like to sample popular stuff when I can to see what the fuss is about etc, and for 7 quid it was a safe purchase.

Anyhoo, It quickly became one of the most fulfilling gaming experiences in my life. So much has been said about it as GTA, sanbox like game but for me it most resembles how I felt when I bought the first Rollercoaster Tycoon; a stupid, colourful, fun world of possibilities that encouarges me to realise those same possibilities in the most insane, ludicrous way I can imagine, and then challenges me to go even further than that again. It facilitates my creatviity as much anything else I've ever played.

I orignally bought Reddead Redemption to play last week instead but after buying Saints Row purley on speculation I've not even touched it, despite recently finishing Deadwood as well and being incredibly impressed by it. I'm simply worried it will be a let down now. I'm Sure it's a great game, and stands as a differnet experience and on it's own merits, but I'll wait until I've played a few more lighter games once I'm done with SR3 before heading into it I think.

Edit: Reading the above suggests that I love everything that's ever been made ever, whereas I'm actually usually incredibly critical. I've just been very fortunate to enjoy genuinley superior games and tv in the last few weeks.

[gganate]

I'm playing Alpha Protocol and I'm about halfway in and it's frustrating. I went for a pistols/stealth build, but the AI is so sensitive that I usually end up in a firefight. The oversensitivity of the controls is an annoyance as well. I like that it's an RPG that isn't in the fantasy genre, but it's pretty half-assed. This is the second Obsidian game I've played besides New Vegas, and I don't understand why they get praised for their writing. Thorton's kind of cool, but other than Mima I can't name anyone else, and the plot is convoluted. Anyway, the check point save system might have finally done me in. I got to the point in the museum level where you have to pick between rescuing Madison or saving a bunch of random people, and I set off a damn alarm with no way of shutting it off, and of course I'm out of pistol ammo. My only option is to restart the mission, and I'm not sure that's happening.

[alms]

Breath of Death VII. I decided to start from this one instead of Cthulhu Saves the World, 3h in I'm regretting the choice, namely because 99% of the time you're just running around some map stumbling into random encounters, which feel more like an annoyance than anything else. There is not much of a backstory, the NPC encounters are few and far between thus the humor, supposedly the game's saving grace, doesn't have many chances to show. In other words, BoDVII looks like an advanced prototype for CSW to me.

[apricotsoup]

Played some Super Monday Night Combat and I can't say I'm a fan.

I liked the first one and was intrigued to see the new version with less one shot kills, a wider variety of classes etc... and it feels a lot slower and less actiony. They seem to have gone overboard with stopping fast kills and now everything seems to take ages to die, which makes all the weapons feel highly weedy.

Have tribes downloaded, hopefully this will give me a nicer multiplayer fix. Also just got the latest mortal kombat so looking to getting my arse kicked there.

[Althea]

Played some Super Monday Night Combat and I can't say I'm a fan.

I liked the first one and was intrigued to see the new version with less one shot kills, a wider variety of classes etc... and it feels a lot slower and less actiony. They seem to have gone overboard with stopping fast kills and now everything seems to take ages to die, which makes all the weapons feel highly weedy.
I was really excited about it, but they went all DotA on the classes and I instantly lost interest.

[laneford]

I desperately want, covet, desire, and need both Journey (PS3) and Fez (360) so I'm desperately trying to finish a small game somewhere so I can justify buying either or hopefully both of them under my patented, one in, one out, backlog clearing policy.

Currently trying to finish the campaign of Magic 2012 but I keep dying at the penultimate guy in the main campaign. Other possibilities are Ben There, Dan That (I hear its short!), Stacking, Binding of Isaac or Pacman CE-DX.

Hrmmm...

[TillEulenspiegel]

Currently trying to finish the campaign of Magic 2012 but I keep dying at the penultimate guy in the main campaign.
If you're not already using it, try Ancient Depths. Arguably the best deck in the game.

I wouldn't be looking forward to the final boss, though. He cheats, using banned cards (Mox Sapphire) and seemingly rigging the first hand he draws. Finally, somehow, after many attempts, there was a game where he couldn't do much for the first few turns, and I won that.

[alms]

Other possibilities are Ben There, Dan That (I hear its short!), Stacking, Binding of Isaac or Pacman CE-DX.

You can get to the bottom of BTDT in no more than 3 hours. OTOH soon after you should probably play Time Gentlemen, Please which is the better game of the two.