What are you playing at the moment? [Archive] - Page 29

elephant god

15-07-2012, 11:50 PM

What's the last version you played? After around version 1.1 I just got bored with how routine I was playing the game, and my creative spark for building was sapped completely as well. Even in my Hardcore game I was so ridiculously succesful that it didn't feel like the world was at stake at all. So I quit Minecraft cold turkey - no playing the game, no posting on the forum, no reading the wiki, no reading the patch notes - until it got sufficiently changed that it'd cease boring me. So I'm wondering: has that happened yet?
I think when i first started it had been in April 2011 that i last entered my minecraft worlds. So that was even before it went final. So yes, there is a lot of new stuff to discover. The worlds that are created are very new to me, there have been many changes to the environment, the wildlife and I sill didn't know about that experience bar (what's that for?).

Still, I think I play Minecraft in a different way than you. It was never about a challenge for me. I tried to survive, then discover something new, not master and eventually enslave the world I created. :)

vinraith

15-07-2012, 11:52 PM

Minecraft has never lived up to its initial potential as a survival game, and at this point I'm certain it never will. It's clearly not where the developers want to go with it. That's a shame, but I got my $15 worth out of it a long time ago, so I'm content to simply let it go. I've no idea when the last time I played it was (last spring, at best) and I really have no itch to go back.

To topic: Playing Mass Effect 3 and having a nice time of it. They put a little RPG back into the tactical shooter with conversations, it's nice to see. Nothing too substantial, of course, but then ME's strength has never been its mechanics.

Drake Sigar

16-07-2012, 12:06 AM

Started playing Skyrim again. So I sit down in a tavern and buy some food off a waitress, and this dude just starts running towards me like he's going to tackle me through the table. Then he suddenly stops and says something about being 'lucky I got to it in time'. Then a pot falls off a shelf.

Six freakin' months and they still haven't fixed the basics. I suppose this means I won't be able to decorate my future guild room either.

Casimir Effect

16-07-2012, 12:50 AM

Oh,nice. Also how UI looks so nicee,you don't want to see my,on low settings :'(
The Empire campaign map is easily my favourite so far. Everything looks so crisp and it isn't running anywhere near full - this alone makes my GPU fan go crazy. I long for the day I can once again play a Total War game maxed out. The only slider I need to max out these days is Unit Size, and I will sacrifice any amount of shadows and particle effects to be able to do that.

megarock58

16-07-2012, 03:56 AM

i am going to buy the Kotor Collection on Wednesday.
i am still running through Gundam vs Zeta Gundam
also downloaded Darksabers Ultimate craft pack for XWA.
i am also playing the Amazing Spider-man.

RPSRSVP

16-07-2012, 04:24 AM

Limbo. I don't think I've ever begged a game not to kill me so much.

I hate you. It's been like a year since I finished it, saw your post and now playing it again. I don't know how to do the spoiler thing since I'm new to this forum but late last night I continued from the part where you are to amputate you know who by using the metal trap. One of the greatest things about Limbo and that foe in particular is because "he" made it personal. If it was simply hunger or instinct, he would have went for that boy in the cave, instead he ignores him to go after you. Anyway, I started off that segment late in the night while I forgot my volume was turned waaaaay up. When he swung at me, it shortened my lifespan by about 5 years.

Currently playing Hitman: BM for the first time, skipped it due to bad vibe I got from reviews, I'm still undecided whether that was a good idea or not.

sabrage

16-07-2012, 05:38 AM

All the JC2 discussion in the other thread made me want to try it out again... God it's big.

sonson

16-07-2012, 08:58 AM

Thanks but something tells me I'll be okay...

http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/2104/2012071500001.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/577/2012071500001.jpg/)

Are you not just really bored by the lack of challenge at this point?

squirrelfanatic

16-07-2012, 09:11 AM

Six freakin' months and they still haven't fixed the basics. I suppose this means I won't be able to decorate my future guild room either.That bug is really really annoying. I can't have a talk with the innkeeper without triggering a hurricane of dishes and vegetables flying through the room. It's like the Dragonborn is telekinetic savant of some kind.

csuzw

16-07-2012, 09:16 AM

Bought Anno 2070 and SpaceChem in the Steam sale. Started playing Anno then uplay fell over and I remember why I didn't buy it at release. It was a good thing though as it meant I played SpaceChem and it's properly amazing. Think it'll keep me occupied for quite a while given that even some of the early levels are proving to be a challenge.

squirrelfanatic

16-07-2012, 09:27 AM

Finished the Portal 2 singleplayer campaign. Solid stuff but as I've already mentioned earlier, not the Second Coming of video games in my opinion. Now onwards to the co-op chambers!

DaftPunk

16-07-2012, 09:58 AM

The Empire campaign map is easily my favourite so far. Everything looks so crisp and it isn't running anywhere near full - this alone makes my GPU fan go crazy. I long for the day I can once again play a Total War game maxed out. The only slider I need to max out these days is Unit Size, and I will sacrifice any amount of shadows and particle effects to be able to do that.

What kind of setup you have there ? I don't believe game is that much demanding now,or is it :o Post some screenshots in screenies thread,let me see the beauty :3

Scumbag

16-07-2012, 10:11 AM

Q.U.B.E.
Not bad. Not shabby and well presented but wears its influences on its sleeve a little too much. Also seems really bloody easy.

Legend of Grimrock
One of the few times where the hype seems to be spot on. This is bloody fantastic!

Leopig

16-07-2012, 10:28 AM

DirT 3
Dragon age II
Two Worlds 2
Hitman Bloodmoney
Splintercell Conviction
Asscred Rev
Torchlight

are the ones I play daily.

Goateh

16-07-2012, 10:29 AM

Gateways

Completed at last! What an awesome game. That time travel mechanic sure makes for some difficult puzzles. I think it would have been better without any enemies at all, but it is one of my favourites of recent games.

Max Payne 3

Started and finished this weekend. I like where they've taken Max Payne's story with part 3. The setting has changed from NY in the snow to tropical slums but it definitely feels like more Max Payne; he's drunk, he's lost and he gets mighty angry at everyone who's out to get him. The soundtrack is excellent throughout, with the opening airport scene near the end being a particular high point.

The gameplay feels like a throwback compared to other modern 3rd person games. It adds a cover system like all the rest but it also manages to be incredibly brutal. There are lots of enemies and every one of them can kill you in an instant if they get behind you or catch you in the open while all your guns are similarly quick to kill. The lowly pistols are still highly effective at the end of the game. I've not played a 3rd person shooter that's quite so quick to kill you for your mistakes in a long time and it was glorious.

There were a couple of frustrating moments, mostly because of their decision to add a 'boss' enemy with near invincible armour to a few scenes,and the checkpoints are occasionally a little wayward but as a whole it managed to be enjoyable while it was kicking you yet again. Yes, there are lots of cutscenes. They're well done and there's still plenty of shooting between them.

Alice: Madness Returns

A few hours into this now. The world is the highlight of the game so far. There are plenty of plain odd and surreal characters and locations along the way and it's all rather dark too. I've not taken as many screenshots in a single game before this. The combat is fun if a bit shallow and the platforming is long-winded and very basic. It feels like it needed someone to cut out a few chunks of meandering platforms and remove a few hours of tedium. It's hard to judge how far you can go with the quadruple jump and glide system but most of the time it's so straightforward that it's irrelevant. Definitely worth pushing through for the sake of the world they've designed around it.

Some screenshots here (http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197960272474/screenshots/?tab=public&showdate=1&filter=app_19680).

Casimir Effect

16-07-2012, 10:46 AM

Are you not just really bored by the lack of challenge at this point?
Normally I would have stopped but I have a lot on right now and just want a relaxing game to play when I have time. With Empire at this point I know I'm unbeatable, but if I want drama I can still declare war on everyone or go into battles with far fewer troops. And the bigger battles are always worth doing, especially now I've discovered how great artillery can be.

What kind of setup you have there ? I don't believe game is that much demanding now,or is it :o Post some screenshots in screenies thread,let me see the beauty :3
It was only an above-average build back when I built it in 2009: AMD Phenom II X4, GTX 275, 4GB DDR2. So it's definitely showing its age now and games like Empire and The Witcher 2 can wreck it. It runs Empire pretty well on medium-high detail but I wouldn't try going to Ultra. TW games are always hard to judge as well - it can run fine with high FPS in small battles but your first 2000 vs 2000 man battle causes the FPS to drop below 10. So it's usually better to be on the safe side with the graphics. Empire itself can be demanding as there is a lot a scale in the graphics options, and also I don't think it has ever been the best optimised game.

Velko

16-07-2012, 10:48 AM

Been playing a little Terraria, some Max Payne 2 (yes, not 3), a hint of Hitman: Blood Money, and latest Frozen Synapse. MP2 doesn't feel as good as MP1 used to feel for some reason, or then it's just nostalgia. Hitman is good fun, though it's a bit difficult sometimes to figure out the neat ways to cause various sorts of accidents without consulting a walkthrough. My assassinations therefore tend to become rather messy, but quiet, thanks to the silenced Silverballer!

Gorzan

16-07-2012, 12:38 PM

The problem with Max Payne 2 is that it's far easier, and the bullet time mechanics are too changed, that's why it feels (and is) worse than the first.

hamster

16-07-2012, 01:17 PM

Try not to ice people with the pistol. Fiber wire, poison them, blow them up, whatever but it's usually infinitely more fun than just duly turning them into ragdolls.

Velko

16-07-2012, 01:49 PM

Try not to ice people with the pistol. Fiber wire, poison them, blow them up, whatever but it's usually infinitely more fun than just duly turning them into ragdolls.

Yes, I probably should. Perhaps it would be easier to do the fun stuff if I just eliminated these guards first...? *runs through another Hitman level shooting everyone with the pistol*

TechnoJellyfish

16-07-2012, 02:44 PM

Leopig

16-07-2012, 02:47 PM

TechnoJellyfish

16-07-2012, 03:01 PM

lol why do so many people say GTA IV was serious, are you people void of humour beyond South Park and other exaggerated comedy? Do you really need canned laughter to know when you are supposed to laugh? There was tonnes of comedy in GTA IV but I think it went over most people heads.

What? I didn't state anywhere that GTA IV as a whole was too serious ...

You may want to check out that YT commentary (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E32j9ufrpoE) (a very good example of what I'm referring to is found at 10:32 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E32j9ufrpoE&t=10m32s)).

Edit: Also, I explicitly did not criticize the storyline, but the bland and boring mission design. Dammit.

Finicky

16-07-2012, 03:55 PM

I was reeeaally skeptical about Saints Row: The Third. It always seemed to me like a crappier, B-grade version of GTA with a weird sense of toilet humour and something about a purple dildo. As it turns out, SR3 is a crappier, B-grade version of GTA with a weird sense of toilet humour and something about a purple dildo. Does this necessarily make for a bad game? Absolutely not!

SR3 succeeds where Grand Theft Auto IV failed: mission design. I didn't even mind the overly serious story of GTA IV, although it stood in stark contrast to the out-and-out satirical game world. But the missions themselves were so unimaginative and bland compared to something like Vice City and San Andreas, whereas SR3 offers all-out over the top action right from the start.

In short: I'm really enjoying this and I was quite surprised how fast I racked up 10 hours of gameplay ...
Yeah, the main problem with gta4 was the no fun allowed approach.
Where were the tanks? Where were the planes? The multiple helicopters (they are also very dull to fly), the bonus mission vans with the rc vehicles, the lines of elvisses to run over, why is the parachute dlc only and one time use?

The driving was a lot less enjoyable than in older gtas and the shooting has always been bad in the 3d gta games and the game was hardly a sandbox anymore.
I got most of my fun out of the physics for pedestrians and the first 3 quarters of the storyline, but this is the first gta I never finished.

Ravelle

16-07-2012, 05:23 PM

Short portions of Max Payne 3, even on easy; dying is a thing you go experience a lot and with the dumb check point system I have to watch those cutscenes every time, it's really frustrating.

squirrelfanatic

16-07-2012, 07:20 PM

Still playing Dark Messiah Might & Magic. Fuck spiders, fuck goblins, fuck that fucking wurm!!

Edit: The game is still fun though. Lots of kicking involved.

Olero

16-07-2012, 07:50 PM

I'm still NOT playing Might & Magic: Heroes IV.... I've now reached the point that I've, politely (since it's not Steam's fault anyways), asked Steam Support for a refund. I'm amazed how much Ubisoft manages to piss me off with it's DRM-hell... I've always held myself for a calm, even stoic person... Hah!

internetonsetadd

16-07-2012, 07:52 PM

Finicky

16-07-2012, 07:58 PM

Played some of The Walking Dead last night. Taking control of your character after cutscenes is sometimes less than a smooth experience, but the story and interaction with others is pretty brilliant so far.

It's a lot better than the awful tv show that's for sure.
The game is survival with some horror, the show is neighbours/home and away with the odd zombie, some jesus bible hugging crap and poor writing, acting and dialog.

sonson

16-07-2012, 08:21 PM

I was reeeaally skeptical about Saints Row: The Third. It always seemed to me like a crappier, B-grade version of GTA with a weird sense of toilet humour and something about a purple dildo. As it turns out, SR3 is a crappier, B-grade version of GTA with a weird sense of toilet humour and something about a purple dildo. Does this necessarily make for a bad game? Absolutely not!

SR3 succeeds where Grand Theft Auto IV failed: mission design. I didn't even mind the overly serious story of GTA IV, although it stood in stark contrast to the out-and-out satirical game world. But the missions themselves were so unimaginative and bland compared to something like Vice City and San Andreas, whereas SR3 offers all-out over the top action right from the start.

In short: I'm really enjoying this and I was quite surprised how fast I racked up 10 hours of gameplay ...

It's a tremendous, glorious game. I've racked up 67% hours in one play, haven't even got to 100% completion yet. Keep meaning to tie up the loose ends and then get distracted by some new absurd oppurtunity that just crops up. Have still got Gangstas in Space and the Trouble with Clones to play as well. I wish the city were bigger and more varied, but beyond that I can't fault it really.

Tritagonist

16-07-2012, 08:37 PM

Just finished The Witcher 2, following Roche for most of the game. I didn't appreciate the credits & ending shenanigans, but otherwise it was nicely wrapped up. Overall I thought it was good fun, though I definitely have a handful of issues with the game that I recognize in other people's negative reviews. In any case, I played it with the Polish audio and that was a fun experience which I like to think added to the atmosphere. If I meet a Pole, we can discuss dragons. Smok!

Tikey

16-07-2012, 09:07 PM

Just finished The Witcher 2, following Roche for most of the game. I didn't appreciate the credits & ending shenanigans, but otherwise it was nicely wrapped up.

I was coming to post the exact same thing.
Now, those credits were stupidly long. If you're going to credit every person on earth at least make it at a decent speed. I could read a chapter from a book from the moment a name showed up up to the moment it left the screen.

LTK

16-07-2012, 09:16 PM

Pressing Escape during the credits skips them and brings you to the final epilogue cutscene. You didn't have to watch them at all. Kind of weird that they said you did.

Herzog

16-07-2012, 09:43 PM

Finished Aquaria today. What a beautiful game it was! Took me around 15 hours to complete. The world you have to explore is really big and to find every location you really need a lot of time. I think I found most of the secrets, but I didnt find the Sprite Cave for example, so I need to have another look. The only thing I didnt like were some of the boss fights. Had to consult some youtube videos because I dont have the patience to find out some of the weird attack patterns you need to kill a boss. Still highly recommended!

I have stopped playing Red Orchestra 2 for now. 160 hours on the clock and still having fun, but I want to play some other things for now. But I will definitely return once Rising Storm or a new patch with new content is released!

The next days I want to dive into Day Z and see what all the fuss is about! Two of my friend also bought Arma2 during the summersale, so I wont be alone... ;)

alms

16-07-2012, 10:22 PM

Aquaria is one of those games I always want to give another chance to. I think it has a lot to do with some of the songs from the OST which I love.

So far the summer sale has had the effect of making me buy stuff and not play anything, but before it went live I managed to finish the first Portal 4 or 5 times (the end credits were the best part of the game, and some puzzles were real clever, especially the advanced ones). I also played some Weird Worlds, which is pretty cool in its own little, goofy way. I gotta thank icupIcannevermemorizethatnick2 who drew my attention to it, otherwise it would have collected dust in my backlog for who-knows-how-long.

mnemnoch

16-07-2012, 11:32 PM

Still playing Dark Messiah Might & Magic. Fuck spiders, fuck goblins, fuck that fucking wurm!!

Edit: The game is still fun though. Lots of kicking involved.

Kicking you say? I loaded up Cargo for the first time and well I shouldn't have click that when I'm about to sleep. Those buddies are creeping me out and kicking them is apparently fun for them.. Im gonna try playing it tomorrow properly.

On the other hand, I finished Bastion for the first time, I must say its been a while since I stay and let the credits roll after playing a game. Superb soundtracks

Fumarole

17-07-2012, 12:12 AM

The Empire campaign map is easily my favourite so far. Everything looks so crisp and it isn't running anywhere near full - this alone makes my GPU fan go crazy. I long for the day I can once again play a Total War game maxed out. The only slider I need to max out these days is Unit Size, and I will sacrifice any amount of shadows and particle effects to be able to do that.Until I played Shogun 2 I didn't realize just how awesome the rotatable map is.

Casimir Effect

17-07-2012, 12:25 AM

Until I played Shogun 2 I didn't realize just how awesome the rotatable map is.
Now I'm really looking forward to playing it

Wheelz

17-07-2012, 12:34 AM

Currently Playing Spec-Ops: The Line.

The story is so incredibly fucked up, and I love it. I Think the best way to describe it is like an inverted 'Call of Duty' game. The setting is kinda unique as well (what with it being Dubai, instead of Iraq/Iran/Afghanistan). IMO it's definitly worth the 1/2 price sale they were offering it for on Amazon recently (not sure if the deal is still going).

The gameplay's nothing new, and the "push space to do everything" feature is abit annoying (same as it was in ME2), but otherwise it's a game that's definitly worth experiencing.

SirKicksalot

17-07-2012, 02:09 AM

I finished Sniper Elite V2. It was FUN AS FUCK. The cover system is broken but otherwise it's a very solid game. Trip wires and booby traps were sadistically enjoyable, don't ignore them if you play this.

Why are all modern Rebellion games so ultraviolent anyway? After playing this and watching the new Dredd footage, I wonder why exactly aren't they making a Judge Dredd game. The whole franchise is theirs!

internetonsetadd

17-07-2012, 04:29 AM

It's a lot better than the awful tv show that's for sure.
The game is survival with some horror, the show is neighbours/home and away with the odd zombie, some jesus bible hugging crap and poor writing, acting and dialog.

I don't hate TWD series as much as a lot of people seem to, but fiction is my life and none of your criticisms are off the mark. I find the story arcs and production values enjoyable, but most of the characters and their ongoing interaction with one another are poorly written. The general idea--a zombie epic that focuses on the living--is good (too few zombie encounters isn't the problem), but the execution isn't. Most of the drama is forced and not particularly believable or engaging; my girlfriend rolled her eyes all through the last season. Despite that, there are some shining moments, and it's still better than 95% of everything else on TV.

So far, the characters in the game are infinitely more believable and engrossing.

And to the guy who mentioned Aquaria, that was one of the few SNES-style platformer-type games that really enthralled me in the last ten years. So, so good.

Tritagonist

17-07-2012, 07:26 AM

Kicking you say? I loaded up Cargo for the first time and well I shouldn't have click that when I'm about to sleep. Those buddies are creeping me out and kicking them is apparently fun for them.. Im gonna try playing it tomorrow properly.
They look innocent, but they have a mean streak - and they're our replacement!

Don't let that stop you though, the game has a good few hours of tinkering with the vehicles - and if you really can't stand the rather linear campaign and story, you can always do said tinkering in the sandbox mode.

eRa

17-07-2012, 09:40 AM

The Binding of Isaac. I die a lot, quit a lot, then come back five minutes later (a lot). Also dabbling in Warlock - Master of the Arcane, the combat AI is way better than Civ V's already.

Heliocentric

17-07-2012, 10:15 AM

They look innocent, but they have a mean streak - and they're our replacement!

Don't let that stop you though, the game has a good few hours of tinkering with the vehicles - and if you really can't stand the rather linear campaign and story, you can always do said tinkering in the sandbox mode.
I'm not sure they are mean, technically they are incapable of being nasty.

Tritagonist

17-07-2012, 10:30 AM

I'm not sure they are mean, technically they are incapable of being nasty.

Well, perhaps - but they did say they 'couldn't do much worse (http://i.imgur.com/MW2BM.jpg)' than Flawkes - and called her a fool (http://i.imgur.com/ZUvi4.jpg)!

Heliocentric

17-07-2012, 10:35 AM

a fool (http://i.imgur.com/ZUvi4.jpg)!

I believe they were talking in a ghettoised vernacular than insultingly.

Rauten

17-07-2012, 02:12 PM

Tikey

17-07-2012, 02:22 PM

Finished Dear Esther. Veredict: MEH
Playing Sam & Max Season 3.
I'm not getting very into it despite having liked the previous seasons a lot.

cosmicolor

17-07-2012, 02:37 PM

Ys: Origins. Oh dear god, so good, but the boss battles are harbingers of rage and desperation.

Still, I'm freaking loving it. If Felghana goes on a flash sale of some sort, instant buy. If not, last day purchase.

Yeah, I hate the boss battles in that game too. And in Felghana, come to think of it. Yeah definitely buy Felghana if you like Origin.

gganate

17-07-2012, 02:38 PM

sabrage

17-07-2012, 02:42 PM

Felghana is awesome. And yeah, the bosses are total bitches.

arathain

17-07-2012, 02:48 PM

TechnoJellyfish

17-07-2012, 02:51 PM

Lukasz

17-07-2012, 03:44 PM

Finished DEHR. very underwhelming ending.

and tried to play F:NV but audio lags. found solution but did not implement it yet.

Rauten

17-07-2012, 03:46 PM

Yeah, I hate the boss battles in that game too. And in Felghana, come to think of it. Yeah definitely buy Felghana if you like Origin.

Felghana is awesome. And yeah, the bosses are total bitches.

I have to say though, as horrible as the boss battles are, they're part of why I'm loving it; because when I actually manage to beat the damn bastard, I feel like the king of the world.

Kodeen

17-07-2012, 03:57 PM

Started playing Fallout 3 for the first time, pretty fun so far. I read that the Broken Steel DLC allows you to keep playing after you finish the main quest. Does that mean that your game 'ends' once you finish the Broken Steel questline, or that you are unrestricted in the same way you are in Elder Scrolls games?

Smashbox

17-07-2012, 04:04 PM

You can keep going after Broken Steel, Scrolls™-style.

I've played a fair amount of From Dust recently - it's pretty hypnotic and it makes me think I would spend time playing a game about sorting things into piles. It's not GREAT though. Very linear (and Ubilauncher grumble grumble whythefuckdoineedtologintomygame).

Also just started Orcs Must Die, and that's a blast, so far!

Kodeen

17-07-2012, 04:50 PM

Cool, thanks.

ZamFear

17-07-2012, 06:30 PM

Christ allmighty Mirror's Edge is a frustrating game. It started off well, and I was impressed, but now I've gotten to a part where I have to follow another runner by making a series of jumps from pipe to pipe, and Faith will absolutely not grab the third pipe, for some insane reason. The controls seem very particular, which isn't a good thing for a platformer. The most frustrating thing in a game is when you keep having to perform the same task over and over without a clue as to why you are continuously failing.

I think you need to be looking up to grab onto stuff.

Currently playing Borderlands (from Steam sale). Making heads explode with the 3-round burst electric pistol I got from some push-over boss fight. The difficulty curve seems a bit wonky. The first few boss fights lock you in tiny arenas with guys who are murder incarnate, and throw hordes of mooks at you to boot. This guy politely sat in a turret the whole time, allowing me to easily rocket launcher him to death from cover. Previous to that, I'd taken out a sidequest boss by running him over with a car for a one-hit-kill.

Nalano

17-07-2012, 06:32 PM

mnemnoch

17-07-2012, 06:47 PM

I think you need to be looking up to grab onto stuff.

Currently playing Borderlands (from Steam sale). Making heads explode with the 3-round burst electric pistol I got from some push-over boss fight. The difficulty curve seems a bit wonky. The first few boss fights lock you in tiny arenas with guys who are murder incarnate, and throw hordes of mooks at you to boot. This guy politely sat in a turret the whole time, allowing me to easily rocket launcher him to death from cover. Previous to that, I'd taken out a sidequest boss by running him over with a car for a one-hit-kill.

Bought Borderlands from Amazon then activate it in steam. Whenever I try to click play a pop up message says " Steam Error Game is currently unavailable. Please try again at another time." O_o

Err, first time I encounter that. Does it have online drm or need server that is currently offline?

Edit: After downloading 12 gb, I uninstall Borderlands. I cant seem to run it no matter what I do. I will try to redownload it and hope for the best. :(

ZamFear

17-07-2012, 07:21 PM

mnemnoch

17-07-2012, 07:28 PM

Verified the cache I think 5 times. It started when the download suspended when only 10mb is from the game. So I tried to pause then click download again. But when I click play that error comes up.

Thanks for the guide. I will try that if ever I encounter that again after Borderlands finish installing.

postinternetsyndrome

17-07-2012, 07:43 PM

Borderlands certainly have some balancing issues. Early on, you have to pick your fights carefully, and might even need to grind for levels at times, but later you will constantly run into quests that you leveled past long before you got them and sooner or later you will find a killer shotgun that will be your primary weapon for the rest of the game (and probably the better part of the DLC:s too). It's really fun though, so it gets away with it, but it's annoying to be sure.

Giaddon

17-07-2012, 07:56 PM

Currently playing Binding Of Isaac and Brogue. Both awesome.

LTK

17-07-2012, 08:42 PM

DE:IW, or Dear Esther: Invisible Walls. It made me sleepy. Otherwise, I was not impressed, despite being well aware going in that it's basically a short story you walk through.

mnemnoch

17-07-2012, 09:11 PM

There's some troubleshooting suggestions for that error here (https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4595-wexn-6831). The only time I've encountered that was installing Orcs Must Die from GamersGate, and verifying cache files fixed it.

Redownloaded Borderlands and now its working. 30 mins in the game and I have a headache. I heard theres some tweaks that change FOV, gonna look for it.

ado

17-07-2012, 10:03 PM

Ravelle

17-07-2012, 11:05 PM

Max Payne 3. I was prepared to hate it but I came out loving the game. The only complaint I have is that the gunplay isn't as tight as in the previous games, but it's still an absolute blast non the less. I really dig the presentation of the game, how it jumps in and out of cutscenes seamlessly and the fact that there is no loading times once you're in. And if you fail a section it's like Super Meat Boy, it loads it instantly for you to fail once more.

Also I have to give props to Rockstar for the level design as well. A really great variety of urban settings that are loaded with great little details.

It loads instantly yes, including the couple of seconds of non controlled animation or dialogue. Also fighting your way through a pretty long part of a level and then dying at the end and doing it 4 times over is so motivation breaking. This is mainly because the cover and controls are so clumsy, hitting Q and then Max who sticks to the wrong side of the object.

Voon

18-07-2012, 04:13 AM

OOH SHIT, I think I've let my dwarves dig a channel to my refuse pile. Hope that won't contaminate the reservoir...

TailSwallower

18-07-2012, 09:10 AM

Redownloaded Borderlands and now its working. 30 mins in the game and I have a headache. I heard theres some tweaks that change FOV, gonna look for it.

You can't change the FOV properly, because it resets itself every time you enter (exit?) a vehicle, and I think also every time you unzoom a weapon. I don't know if it's seriously been done, but somebody mentioned binding the FOV-changing key to the walk-forward key as the best solution.

mnemnoch

18-07-2012, 09:29 AM

You can't change the FOV properly, because it resets itself every time you enter (exit?) a vehicle, and I think also every time you unzoom a weapon. I don't know if it's seriously been done, but somebody mentioned binding the FOV-changing key to the walk-forward key as the best solution.

They said it only reset if your playing online. But like you said, binding it to forward key lessen that nuisance. I tried that and so far I like the result. Change FOV to 95 and now I can play for more than an hour without getting a headache.

I found how to use third person view in Borderlands, so that's a really win for me. (I try to avoid FPS if there is an alternative)

sonson

18-07-2012, 11:11 AM

Did a couple skirmishes in Age of Empires 3. Feels like Age of Empires, which is to say it feels dated, to me. Oh, how I long for unit retention and better organization than pumping out villagers one by one...

The homecity/board game elements save it and bring enjoyable element to the game for me. But a game in which they don't feature too much makes them pretty tedious and clunky.

But I stand by the notion that RTS' were very much of their time and that as advances in gaming came in has made increasingly less sense to make a trad version given that they essentially a genre of compromising several elements which no longer require compromise.

Giaddon

18-07-2012, 11:30 AM

Just got StarTopia in the mail! Time to relive some gaming memories!

Also -- Max Payne 3 has the best action gameplay I've played in years. It's a game of frequent and total desperation. As said above, it's the Super Meat Boy of action games. Each checkpoint is really its own level/unit of challenge. They're very carefully designed, and you can choose which specific checkpoint you want from the mission select screen. I do think (like Super Meat Boy) they should have let you skip past checkpoints that are too hard for you at the moment, but goddamn, those gunfights are things of beauty. <3 Max Payne 3.

mrki

18-07-2012, 12:25 PM

Just got StarTopia in the mail! Time to relive some gaming memories!.

Oh my, those were some good times. :)

To add content, I'm not actually playnig anything at the moment because I barely have time for it. I did manage to grab (more than) a few games from the steam sale, so there'll be some binging in two weeks.

fiddlesticks

18-07-2012, 01:03 PM

I'm currently playing through Just Cause 2. The world is beautifully crafted and causing havoc everywhere is surprisingly fun, but there isn't really much variety in the gameplay or the missions, so for the most part you end up doing the same thing over and over.

Also, I just completed the fifth Agency mission and the plot went from slightly silly to completely bonkers. I'm not sure if this game is a terrible Michael Bay film or a brilliant parody of one.

Rauten

18-07-2012, 01:04 PM

Almost done with Ys: Origins. I'm right before the final boss. Tonight, shit's gonna get real.

postinternetsyndrome

18-07-2012, 02:28 PM

I'm not sure if this game is a terrible Michael Bay film or a brilliant parody of one.I'd say the latter.

TailSwallower

18-07-2012, 02:38 PM

I found how to use third person view in Borderlands, so that's a really win for me. (I try to avoid FPS if there is an alternative)

Third person view? Sounds interesting. What's the tweak for that? And how well does it actually work?

Sketch

18-07-2012, 03:29 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HAiBMnp3hE

Looks decent enough, and you can supposedly edit the camera position to how you want it.

mnemnoch

18-07-2012, 03:48 PM

Third person view? Sounds interesting. What's the tweak for that? And how well does it actually work?

http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=79043

Found a bunch of tweaks there. There is also this app that put the tweaks for you so that you dont have to mess with the ini.

http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=85874&page=38 Check this thread here for the app.

This is the 3rd person tweak that I use.

Originally Posted by Vaporizer
I've just made this keybinding and it seems to be working perfect. It allows you to toggle between first- and thirdperson with F1, the zooming is always correct and you can still fire the weapon in a vehicle.
Just add this to the end of [WillowGame.WillowPlayerInput]:

Bindings=(Name="FirstPersonZoom",Command="advancedbutton bAdvancedButtonAux5",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=F alse,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreS hift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)
Bindings=(Name="ThirdPersonZoom",Command="advancedbutton bAdvancedButtonAux5 | Camera FirstPerson | OnRelease Camera ThirdPerson",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=F alse,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreS hift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)
Bindings=(Name="FirstPersonToggle",Command="Camera FirstPerson | setbind RightMouseButton FirstPersonZoom | setbind F1 ThirdPersonToggle",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=F alse,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreS hift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)
Bindings=(Name="ThirdPersonToggle",Command="Camera ThirdPerson | setbind RightMouseButton ThirdPersonZoom | setbind F1 FirstPersonToggle",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=F alse,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreS hift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)
Bindings=(Name="F1",Command="ThirdPersonToggle",Control=False,Shift=False,Alt=False,LeftTrigger=F alse,RightTrigger=False,bIgnoreCtrl=False,bIgnoreS hift=False,bIgnoreAlt=False)

LTK

18-07-2012, 06:26 PM

I just started Just Cause 2, and the first time I drive a car up the road I crash into somebody, because apparently the citizens of Panau have absolutely no grasp of the concept 'right of way'.

What the hell, man. I'm driving here just like an upstanding citizen in a car that I didn't have to throw the occupant out of. Although with these controls, that really means that I'm driving just like an everyday asshole, in a car that I stole from my informant. But still, give me some credit.

...I'm probably playing this all wrong, aren't I?

DaftPunk

18-07-2012, 07:04 PM

How is this possible that Lithuania have so big army and its such a sucky country,its driving me crazy! I killed about 6-7 of their generals and out of nowhere four new generals with 1200+ army arrived infront of my doors..fuck this shit man

add_dinosaur #: (Max amount 40.000)

xD

Edit. Haha just beat their biggest army so far with little 200 men less..suck that!

Gorzan

18-07-2012, 08:37 PM

With The Wrath of The lamb I find myself playing The Binding of Isaac again.
Also, Blood Bowl and Saints Row: The Third are driving me away from Deus Ex: HR, I'll have to forbid myself from starting any new game until I've finished with Saints and Deus.

Smashbox

18-07-2012, 08:56 PM

Edit. Haha just beat their biggest army so far with little 200 men less..suck that!

These moments feel so amazing in Total War games. A rag-tag band of men under an untested commander (who you can zoom in on! wao!) hold some backwater fort against a massive army. All because of that risky cavalry charge that paid off in spades!

Really rewarding!

DaftPunk

18-07-2012, 09:45 PM

Yeah agree,its awesome when you manage to do that. Now i decided to sign peace with Lithuania,i payed them 400 coins to show me their map and we cut the deal for trade rights. So the plan is to gather four generals and build army for each one of them,then slowly move towards lithuania,now i also assigned alliance with Chuman Kanate,so they won't bother me from my back,and to make alliance stronger i'm going to try and marry one of my children to one of theirs,hope it turns good.

Ps. We could have topic in which we can post our progress about our campaigns in TW games,included with pics,pics are awesome.

Smashbox

18-07-2012, 11:11 PM

It's been a while since I played one, but all this TW talk makes me want to crack one open again.

I have a bit of Steam Sale stuff I want to check out first though.

sabrage

19-07-2012, 03:52 AM

You know, I'll take invisible walls over "mysteriously start chunking your health away until you die", Serious Sam.

Voon

19-07-2012, 08:19 AM

Fucking elves. If they to show their smug, stuck up faces again in my fortress to sell their bullshit, I'M TAKING THEM. MY LAWN, MY PROPERTY, PAL. And god, I need some fortifications, just in case

LTK

19-07-2012, 08:37 AM

I'm rather astonished at how shamelessly Just Cause 2 goes about being a terrorism simulator.

Nalano

19-07-2012, 08:55 AM

I'm rather astonished at how shamelessly Just Cause 2 goes about being a terrorism simulator.

Terrorism, sure... but simulator?

Tho if you wanna game with terrorism (http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/540676336818163520/E53ECB8D92AE58340D95FF1014188335FF4E625C/)...

Goateh

19-07-2012, 09:36 AM

I'd love to get one of the grappling hooks they're simulating.

Alice Madness Returns

Wonderful levels, art and design. They really needed to cut out a chunk of every single section of the game though. It's worth playing simply to see the world they've created and the creatures in it. I love that the people you see in real London are some of the most monstrous looking npcs in the game, even if those sections have nothing to do but walk forward.

Mechanically it's functional but dull. The combat is passable but there are too many copies of the same fights. Equally, the platforming is reasonable (if simple) but there's just too much of it. Every section of the game could have been cut by 20% and it would be a better game for it. Yes, I like your vaguely Eastern mountain but I don't want to do yet another section of jump-fight-jump with the same platforms and the same enemies. At least it's routinely easy and has some of the most generous checkpointing I've seen; I've quicksaved less than this game has checkpointed and adding a quadruple jump and glide system makes anything but the hardest jumps trivial.

Mafia 2

Oh god, that driving. I want to play it because I really liked Mafia 1 at the time but I just can't get past the driving mechanics. It makes you drive across the city repeatedly and all the cars so far are boats. To make any kind of turn you need to slow to a crawl, but they're so bad on the brakes that you can't drive at speed and expect to brake for the corner. I've played my share of racing sims and arcade racers and this is some awkward middle ground. Maybe cars in the 40's really drove like this, I don't want to drive like this though.

To make it worse, half of the time I seem to be driving simply to see a cutscene. If I'm driving to a conversation, driving to a briefing and then driving to the mission can't you just make the early driving a cutscene too and start me at the mission? I can't continue with this, the cars are too unwieldy and slow to have any fun. I don't mind driving around for immersion's sake but at least make it tolerable.

Yes, that was on normal handling not simulation.

FunnyB

19-07-2012, 10:04 AM

Tho if you wanna game with terrorism (http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/540676336818163520/E53ECB8D92AE58340D95FF1014188335FF4E625C/)...

Hmmm... When does this happen? I can't remember the exact moment...

Unreal Tournament 2004:
I just rebought this during the steam sale (have the old 6 CD version somewhere around here as well) and played it for the first time in years. It's really funny to see how different this feels compared to contemporary multiplayer FPS games. It's incredibly fast-paced and really requires you to move around and aim every split-second. In my opinion all contemporary FPS games feel really slow in comparison. And my verdict is, this game really rocks!

TechnoJellyfish

19-07-2012, 10:29 AM

Alice Madness Returns

Wonderful levels, art and design. They really needed to cut out a chunk of every single section of the game though. It's worth playing simply to see the world they've created and the creatures in it. I love that the people you see in real London are some of the most monstrous looking npcs in the game, even if those sections have nothing to do but walk forward.

Mechanically it's functional but dull. The combat is passable but there are too many copies of the same fights. Equally, the platforming is reasonable (if simple) but there's just too much of it. Every section of the game could have been cut by 20% and it would be a better game for it. Yes, I like your vaguely Eastern mountain but I don't want to do yet another section of jump-fight-jump with the same platforms and the same enemies. At least it's routinely easy and has some of the most generous checkpointing I've seen; I've quicksaved less than this game has checkpointed and adding a quadruple jump and glide system makes anything but the hardest jumps trivial.

That summarizes my experience with Alice pretty damn well. Although I would even go as far as to say that they could have cut 50% of every section for the better. I swear, it feels like I already spent 3 hours in that feudal Japanese setting, it almost makes me feel sick to continue ...

LTK

19-07-2012, 10:44 AM

Terrorism, sure... but simulator?

Tho if you wanna game with terrorism (http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/540676336818163520/E53ECB8D92AE58340D95FF1014188335FF4E625C/)...
With an admittedly liberal use of 'simulator'. In any case, it's really gleeful about bombing an entire island nation back into the stone age.

Giaddon

19-07-2012, 10:56 AM

Red Faction: Guerrilla is the more literal terrorism simulator.

TailSwallower

19-07-2012, 10:57 AM

Super Meat Boy works on this netbook! Huzzah!

Though it just makes me wish that Tommy Refenes would work his magic on Binding of Isaac so that would actually run smoothly.

postinternetsyndrome

19-07-2012, 12:56 PM

With an admittedly liberal use of 'simulator'. In any case, it's really gleeful about bombing an entire island nation back into the stone age.The game is pretty ironic about it you know. What's your beef here?

Nalano

19-07-2012, 12:58 PM

The game is pretty ironic about it you know. What's your beef here?

Besides, considering how the natives drive, destroying every gas station in the country is probably a public service.

fiddlesticks

19-07-2012, 02:10 PM

Besides, considering how the natives drive, destroying every gas station in the country is probably a public service.
I wanted to agree with this, but then I realized I probably killed more civilians with my terrible driving than the Panauan military did during their reign of terror. Plus, destroying water towers and generators and stealing the people's hard-earned cash is kind of a mean thing to do.

It doesn't help that Rick seems incapable of holding a conversation with anyone without threatening them. Though considering the walking stereotype that is Tom Sheldon, maybe the whole game is just a brilliant satire of US foreign policy.

Casimir Effect

19-07-2012, 02:27 PM

Hmmm... When does this happen? I can't remember the exact moment...

Unreal Tournament 2004:
I just rebought this during the steam sale (have the old 6 CD version somewhere around here as well) and played it for the first time in years. It's really funny to see how different this feels compared to contemporary multiplayer FPS games. It's incredibly fast-paced and really requires you to move around and aim every split-second. In my opinion all contemporary FPS games feel really slow in comparison. And my verdict is, this game really rocks!
UT'99/'04 are timeless classics. UT3 can be great fun as well but something was definitely lost.

Smashbox

19-07-2012, 02:44 PM

The water towers, in particular, struck me as odd.

The writing in that game is so far beyond bad that it has somehow become good. Not to mention the voice acting.

Finicky

19-07-2012, 03:43 PM

Red orchestra 2:
Quite a few things that bother me, first and formost the engine.

-Usual ue3 poor image quality , patented ue3 gleem and a shitty fxaa solution makes for a total mess of blur and bloom even with motion blur, bloom and dof turned off.

-Performance also isn't good (the ingame fps counter claims 50-60 fps but it feels more like 30 for some reason, it also tears like no tomorrow)

-You have to turn off fxaa to see what is going on, but then you get the usual ue3 pixel crawling on anything that is shaded , gl spotting movement when half your onscreen information consists of moving jaggies.

-It really is very unpleasant to look at, I love ww2 era games , I think many source mods, the original dod, rtcw, mohAA etc all were very pleasing to look at despite the old engines, but RO2 is an ugly desaturated mess with really awful looking shiny terrain and environments.
It looks like a late 90 s game with modern lighting , extremely bad image quality, desaturated colors, lack of contrast and some of the ugliest textures I've seen.

Again I don't care much for modern graphics, I'm more than happy with source game graphics or the look of mohaa, but if graphics are a hindrance to playing the game and genuinly offensively bad to look at then it does bother me.

Tip: turn off FXAA, bloom, motion blur , depth of field and most importantly set post processing to low, this removes most of the shitty bloomy gleemy blur (not that this fixes the pixel crawling and jaggies but at least now you no longer feel like you have glaucoma).

The community also seems pretty much dead.
There are 2 usually full 'realism' settings servers which are very laggy (100-200 ms for everyone, I'm sure any fps player will agree that this is no good ) and spikes to 800 ms for everyone.
There is one non-realism settings server but that has a bunch of bots in it to fill it up... The bots are super retarded.

Because there are so few servers and players, EU and US players mix (lag lag lag lag lag ahoi) and you have no choice in what map you'd like to play (a few are enjoyable , a few others are real stinkers imo).

Other than that it's not too bad, as far as realism goes, AA (until patch 2.0) had much more enjoyable gunplay and room clearing gameplay and was much less of a sniperfest (sniper in this game is just anyone prone with any gun, they all shoot like sniper rifles anyhow, the PPSH submachine gun can snipe people just as easily as a bolt action rifle in this game).

I also saw none of the tanking of ro1; I'm sure it's there, just not on the servers that are actually still active...

Imo unless you have a big bunch of friends to play this with and fill a server, I'd avoid this game.

I love ww2 games, really liked AA, liked opf yet this is not my cup of tea.

Tikey

19-07-2012, 03:49 PM

I finished The other side of the coin DLC for magicka with a friend last night. It was quite weak. Not as funny nor interesting as previous DLCs

Sketch

19-07-2012, 03:49 PM

Finicky

19-07-2012, 04:08 PM

I find it odd that people still declare UE3 has one particular 'style' - it's used in a lot of big burly manshoot games yes, but there's so many other games that aren't like that it makes me think some people aren't aware just how many Unreal Engine games there are.
I'm perfectly aware, and all of them have the UE3 look, every single one.

Tera does, ro2 does, bulletstorm, APB, The batman games do, blands , dungeon defenders , Mass effect , tribes ascend, tlr.
All games with very different settings, playstyles and artstyles , but all share the ue3 look and ue3 problems.

-can't do hair or grass or vegetation (painfully obvious in tera http://www.cinemablend.com/images/gallery/s23109/tera_online_12671358172786.jpg )

-Character models always look like creepy uncanny puppets

-Lack of proper AA support (deferred rendering ftl)

-copy paste assets because of how their mesh system / performance works

-bloomy and gleemy lighting and specular

-texture streaming problems causing framerate dips and akward lod switching of textures.

I can't think of one ue3 game where it wasn't immediately obvious that is was running on ue3.

Since SO many games use ue3 (just as you said), that look gets very tiresome, and the problems and bad image quality get even more tiresome.

Smashbox

19-07-2012, 04:09 PM

There's often a telltale 'sheen' to the normal maps. A little bit waxy. Not all of them - maybe it has to do with some of the pack-in assets or examples or something.

Sketch

19-07-2012, 04:18 PM

I really can't look at Mirrors Edge and be like 'oh this is obviously on the same engine as Bulletstorm!' Or Monday Night Combat, Sanctum etc.

I'm just surprised to see someone claim that UE3 has poor image quality, when it's usually when of the best looking engines and is pretty good on old gaming rigs too.

SirKicksalot

19-07-2012, 04:31 PM

I replayed the original FEAR and finished it in 5.5 hours. It aged so poorly, especially compared to its big rival at the time - Quake 4. The one thing it does better than its sequels or pretty much any other shooter: dust. This simple effect makes a really good impression... Otherwise the game has the aesthetic qualities of a wet paper bag. Its grey concrete industrial setting is interesting, but it's not something I want to see in more games. The story is shit, the horror is shit - hell, pretty much everything except for the combat and music is shit.

One hour into FEAR: Extraction Point, playing it for the first time, I am very pleased. It's aware of how retarded it is - when FEAR's villain is resurrected 5 minutes in, he proclaims "I know this doesn't make sense". The combat is significantly ramped up from the original. There are a lot more enemies and the levels are built to take advantage of its simple AI trickery. It's awesome. The horror is goofy but more imaginative.

I hear Perseus Mandate is little more than a bunch of combat arenas. If it keeps up EP's intensity, I'm going to love it. The plan is to finish all the FEAR games and, for the first time, expansions. Not looking forward to Project Origin's BORING, but I know FEAR 3 brings back the awesome.

Tei

19-07-2012, 05:03 PM

Fumarole

19-07-2012, 05:54 PM

Ps. We could have topic in which we can post our progress about our campaigns in TW games,included with pics,pics are awesome.There are at least two threads in the Social subforum with Total War AARs. Oak is currently doing Medieval 2 and my Napoleon adventure recently concluded. You might want to check them out.

links:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/forums/showthread.php?2986-The-Medallion-of-the-Imperial-Psychopath

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/forums/showthread.php?5399-Milan-and-On-A-Medieval-II-Total-War-AAR

squirrelfanatic

19-07-2012, 07:29 PM

From the"Aren't Games Great?" post on the frontpage, my reply:

I just finished “Dark Messiah of Might & Magic” which I bought during the first days of the Steam sale.

The story might be a bit rubbish and the endless hordes of spiders (eeeh!) and undead (meh!) are tedious to fight through, but there is something about the game design, the way that you can find secret routes and hidden treasures everywhere that makes it SO satisfying to play.

And the kicking! The lovely kicking. I kicked goblins into fires, orcs down beautiful sunlit cliffsides, and I even managed to kick a Lich boss into the abyss below his tomb.

I love this game.

Smashbox

19-07-2012, 07:48 PM

There are at least two threads in the Social subforum with Total War AARs. Oak is currently doing Medieval 2 and my Napoleon adventure recently concluded. You might want to check them out.

links:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/forums/showthread.php?2986-The-Medallion-of-the-Imperial-Psychopath

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/forums/showthread.php?5399-Milan-and-On-A-Medieval-II-Total-War-AAR

This is rad, dudes. Thanks for the link and the words.

Nalano

19-07-2012, 07:51 PM

I wanted to agree with this, but then I realized I probably killed more civilians with my terrible driving than the Panauan military did during their reign of terror. Plus, destroying water towers and generators and stealing the people's hard-earned cash is kind of a mean thing to do.

It doesn't help that Rick seems incapable of holding a conversation with anyone without threatening them. Though considering the walking stereotype that is Tom Sheldon, maybe the whole game is just a brilliant satire of US foreign policy.

STOP DYING WHILE I'M TRYING TO SAVE YOU *ratatatatatatatatatataBOOM*

TailSwallower

19-07-2012, 07:54 PM

Well, I started coming across some weird bugs in Super Meat Boy on World 2, Level 20. Kept clipping through the scenery randomly, which might have been helpful if it was at all predictable. I also couldn't make a jump that people on youtube made look easy, but maybe that's just me. What isn't me though is control issues - not sure if it's my keyboard, or if it's another bug in the game itself.

Then the World 2 boss level wasn't working either. Again clipping, and after collecting the key the level refused to fill up with blood. Will try again later, but I'm thinking that maybe the game doesn't like this netbook after all.

airtekh

19-07-2012, 09:30 PM

I'm partway through Prince of Persia (2008) which I got along with Forgotten Sands on a flash deal in the steam sale. I liked the Sands of Time games so I wanted to see how the most recent PoP games turned out.

Pretty decent platforming so far. Some bits are a tad repetitive, particularly when travelling between areas or backtracking to collect the light gem thingies, but I am enjoying it. Didn't realise it was set in a semi-open world either; and it's quite refreshing to be able to choose which level to do next.

I got Lone Survivor from (I think) the most recent Humble bundle, and am just checking it out now. It reminds me quite a lot of Resident Evil, except it's in 2D, with cute pixellated graphics.

Sketch

19-07-2012, 09:31 PM

Oooh, forgot about PoP 2008's open world type thing, makes me want to go back to it.

Gorzan

19-07-2012, 10:01 PM

alms

19-07-2012, 10:08 PM

I've just started with Simcity 4 and I have to say that the region creation is really bad, the fact that if I want to create a new region I have to do al the terraforming city by city is just ridiculous and yields an extremely ugly map.

When I was starting out I always chose the smallest region to make things more manageable. In that case you pretty much want to keep terraforming at a minimum. Use a completely flat region or if you feel like it, add a bit of water on one of the dead sides (if you picked a corner/edge region). Keep in mind seaports are bugged though, so I'm not sure how much use there's in them besides being pretty.

If you use a dead side you won't have any trouble while reconciling edges, although you're not really forced to do that either.

Gorzan

19-07-2012, 10:12 PM

The problem is I wanted things like mountains and rivers going from one city to the next, and this way that's almost impossible to do properly.
Also, currently on a game of Blood Bowl: LE, puzzled because it doesn't allow me to field my 11th player when I have ready linemen on reserve.

alms

19-07-2012, 10:16 PM

I have no idea if you can make mountains that span regions, but there shouldn't be a problem with rivers.

The JG Man

20-07-2012, 12:18 AM

I'd like to thank my internet connection and the sudden shock of losing it to Spotify and Steam causing my computer to hard lock, losing my progress in a fantastic game of Binding of Isaac, reaching the final final level. Thanks internet/programs! You rock!

Seethe.

Strazz

20-07-2012, 09:20 AM

Playing and admiring Hitman: Blood Money. Alternating that with World of Tanks

NathanH

20-07-2012, 09:25 AM

Also, currently on a game of Blood Bowl: LE, puzzled because it doesn't allow me to field my 11th player when I have ready linemen on reserve.

I have seen this bug before, but I can't remember what causes it. I think it might have something to do with selecting other players and looking at them while your opponent is setting up, but I'm not sure.

LTK

20-07-2012, 02:21 PM

Doodier

20-07-2012, 04:18 PM

I'm currently playing Alpha Protocol for the second time and I am enjoying it much more now! That's probably because I am planning on going to Moscow AFTER all the other missions so Brayko wouldn't spoil all the fun as he did the first time. I am trying to be non-lethal but damn! there's not enough of tranquilizer rounds around! Still it's fun and I don't really know why I've waited so long to play it. I was gonna put this in Screenshot thread but I don't know how to link my Steam shots to this system :/

Also playing Binding of Isaac (Steam says 103 hours but I'm thinking at least 10% of that is idle). I have to take a break from this game for a little while though. It's starting to feel like a chore to play it.

Smashbox

20-07-2012, 04:29 PM

The in-game statistics tell me I've spent 20 hours on Just Cause 2 in the previous two days. Steam says it's 17 hours. When I went to bed and closed my eyes, I saw flashes of the game before them. I haven't binged this hard on a game in a while.

Now, time to install some mods!

This multiplayer mod just came out:

http://kotaku.com/5924580/that-just-cause-2-multiplayer-mod-looks-like-entirely-too-much-fun

Haven't tried it, but it sure looks cool.

Kodeen

20-07-2012, 04:42 PM

I've been playing FO3 and have been pleasantly surprised that it's not living up to the crap reputation that the internet gives it. Going through a seemingly abandoned building with the music off, lights going on and off, and my lack of ammo can make the game really tense. Just wish I didn't end each gaming session with a CTD.

Proctor Eldritch

20-07-2012, 05:02 PM

I've just started with Simcity 4 and I have to say that the region creation is really bad, the fact that if I want to create a new region I have to do al the terraforming city by city is just ridiculous and yields an extremely ugly map.

Yeah, it's really a pain in the ass to make your region look the way you want it to look. To get those mountains from city to city you should have the auto-reconcile edges tool on. That will make it somewhat easier.

Smashbox

20-07-2012, 05:12 PM

Don't know if you know this, but in SimCity 4, you can use a massive 'brush' in the god-mode environment editing. I think you hold down SHIFT? If not shift, something like that.

Good for tree-ing the bastard up a notch.

Other benefits of heavy tree-ing:

It looks better.
It actually provides environmental (and possibly land-value directly or indirectly) advantages.

SirKicksalot

20-07-2012, 05:39 PM

I finished FEAR: Extraction Point.
I enjoyed it more than the original because the combat was better. More enemies, more interesting combat arenas, more weapons. The horror elements were pretty cool, especially in the final part of the game.

Now I'm playing Perseus Mandate. It has really big and ugly open spaces. It basically looks like the original Deus Ex. But the combat and pacing are even more furious than before. 30 seconds into the game you're already facing enemy squads and it just keeps escalating.

People that care about FEAR's story, characters and atmosphere will dislike these expansions. But if combat is what you're looking for, they're miles above the original game. As far as I'm concerned Timegate could have skipped all the lore bullshit and just deliver rooms to clear, because they're doing a fantastic job with them.

As a side note, reviews complain that Perseus Mandate offers no motivation or reason to care about the characters and story. But why should it do that? Why can't I just pretend I'm a dude that's doing his job? I don't need compelling characters and contrieved personal objectives. I'm just deployed in the middle of a shitstorm and I do what I do best. That's enough motivation for me, and frankly it's better than most game plots.

Leopig

20-07-2012, 10:24 PM

Just finished Splinter cell conviction. Damn good game, if not on the short side.

fiddlesticks

20-07-2012, 10:47 PM

I finished Mirror's Edge and I'm not quite sure what to make of it. It definitely had a lot of potential. I love the concept and for once, platforming in first-person actually works to the game's advantage. It really helps immerse you in the environment and it gives you a greater sense of actually being high up. The art direction is stunning too, I love the way colour is used throughout the city. The early levels in particular are breathtaking at times.

It does have some glaring flaws however. Sometimes it's not very clear what you can jump on or what will just bounce you off. Similarly, there are a few situations where it's not quite clear what you actually have to do. By far the greatest transgression though are the forced combat sequences, which completely kill the flow of the game every time they appear. What's up with that? I bought this game because I wanted to get away from the usual FPS gameplay, why shoehorn it in when it really doesn't fit.

Ob top of that, the story is all over the place and ends on a really unsatisfying note. And for a game whose main attraction is running around on rooftops, you spend far too much time in narrow corridors.

I'd say it's one of those games with a great premise, but a flawed execution. If DICE ever does go around to making a sequel, I hope they throw out combat altogether and put a greater focus on just exploring a city from a high-up perspective. Basically take the first half of this game and expand on it.

I also finished Just Cause 2, which ended on a decidedly better note. I had a lot of fun with it, but I doubt I'll go for 100% completion. There just isn't enough variety in the missions or the gameplay to keep me occupied for another thirty hours. Still, I might replay it if I ever feel in the mood for some mindless destruction.

postinternetsyndrome

20-07-2012, 11:28 PM

Closing in on 100% in JC2, I can definitely say it's not worth it. I have the big city left, and it's just a pain, with watertowers and crates scattered all over the place. Also, I've read that the game is in fact bugged; that a watertower is missing or somesuch, so you can't actually get 100%.

I agree about Mirror's Edge. It's got great mechanics, but the level design was silly at times. I also sometimes resented the puzzly aspect of many areas. I guess it's ok to have a bit of that, but for a parkour game, it had remarkably little room for finding "flow" and just getting on with the running. When you constantly have to stop and look around you to find whatever you're supposed to climb onto, it kills the flow totally. I actually really liked the more acrobatic enemies that turn up towards the end. They imposed a bit of urgency to it all, forcing you to make fast decisions about where to head next. One of my gaming wet dreams is a game that is completely centered around escaping and running from stuff.

TheDreamlord

20-07-2012, 11:41 PM

Since the start of the Steam sale, I've been playing:

Blades of Time - Not bad, if a bit generic, but the fighting is good and the world well drawn but with repetitive enemies. Half way through.
Max Payne 3 - About half way through and I love it, I think it is a great game. The shooting is amazing and, even though the constant cut-scenes interrupt the gameplay, the story is good, the graphics awesome and the seamless cinematic nature is something done well and never really seen before.
Ys Origin - Boy is this fun! Takes me back to my younger years!

Once I finish them three, I have another 16 in line. I guess I went a bit overboard!

Casimir Effect

20-07-2012, 11:51 PM

I finished Mirror's Edge...
The story of ME was done after the game was finished if I recall correctly. Poor Rhianna Pratchett had to cobble something together as the story was no ones concern for a long time.
As for not knowing where to go at certain areas or being unsure of what to do, you will replay this game. It'll happen, especially if you watch something like Banlieu 13. And when you're playing it again, you'll get flashbacks of what to do at certain point, and that makes everything so much more fluid. I'd even say it's a game that gets better when you play it again.

Finicky

21-07-2012, 12:32 AM

Since the start of the Steam sale, I've been playing:

Ys Origin - Boy is this fun! Takes me back to my younger years!

The Ys games are amazing, if you have a psp try to get your hands on Ys 7, it's the best of the series, has most of the challenge, less of the frustration (difficulty wise).

Anyhow:
Red faction: Armageddon: Very pretty looking game, great performance, awesome lighting, very polished and consistent, no bugs as of yet and oh em GEE it has MSAA support for reals!

It fixed all the the annoyances and problems of guerilla (though it's no longer open world , it is just as sandboxy gameplay wise).
You get lots of awesome guns to play with, no cover mechanics, no mouse acceleration or other console bollox and you get to hold 4 weapons at a time (any weapons, not just melee + pistol + light rifle + heavy weapon like most games).

Only downside so far is that you need to fix the FOV yourself ( http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1978110&page=4 , post 52 has the file you need) because it's a console port with a hilarious 45 degree field of view.

edit: in the second half of the game and it's degrading in more on rails turret shooting and some crappy flying bit and more scripted events, kind of like the gears of war games, which is not a good thing. I hope the last quarter of the campaign goes back to the proper gameplay from the first half.

victory

21-07-2012, 12:36 AM

Been playing "I Wanna Be The Guy Gaiden" on medium difficulty for a couple of hours. I didn't have patience for IWBTG, this is much easier and less frustrating. I was already one jump short of beating the last boss.

Casimir Effect

21-07-2012, 12:54 AM

Still playing Empire and we're at the year 1773 with the British in control of most of the world. There's some Dutch left in America and India, some Swedish in America (they attacked the Dutch) and in Europe there are the Dutch, Prussia, Russia, Poland Lithuania, Ottoman and Sweden left. I'm at war with Russia and Poland, taking more of their territory every turn. The plan is then to declare war on Sweden while maneuvering units around the remaining factions, then attacking the Prussians while ending my 70+ year alliance with the Dutch (it'll be a sad moment) before attacking them in preparation for attacking the Ottomans (my other ally) to finally take Egypt - the last province I need to win the game. This has been a fantastic trip and I recommend Empire to everyone.

And for those wondering if history will start to kick in, my American provinces couldn't be happier. But if they do decide to go all 1776 on me then things will go very, very badly for them.

alms

21-07-2012, 01:52 AM

RS3/TS2012! I was beginning to think this was an ideal game (ok, sim) to play before sleep because it just drives me into some kind of relaxed state when it's really easy to fall asleep. Then I tried Career Mode.

And don't look at my Steam timer, I pulled a nalano this time: forgot the launcher in the background, and turns out Steam counts it as if the real game (well, yes, sim) was running -- but I must have played at least 6 or 7 hours anyway.

LTK

21-07-2012, 05:31 AM

Closing in on 100% in JC2, I can definitely say it's not worth it. I have the big city left, and it's just a pain, with watertowers and crates scattered all over the place. Also, I've read that the game is in fact bugged; that a watertower is missing or somesuch, so you can't actually get 100%.

I discovered that as well. Yesterday I was trying to find all the pickups in the Three Kings area, and realized that I don't need vehicle parts, I don't need gun parts, and I don't need more money. So I'd much rather do all the missions and discover all locations. Seems like a better use of my game time than compulsively hunting for that last hidden destructible object that seems to be in every stronghold. It doesn't help that the game doesn't segregate between destructible and pickup, nor can you see anywhere what exactly you're missing.

There's a mod that places the missing water tower and pickups in the game world, but when I installed it, the propaganda trailers that I destroyed afterwards started respawning. So I didn't bother. God, this game would be so much better with some proper post-release support.

ado

21-07-2012, 12:41 PM

Now that I'm done with Max Payne 3 I started Half life. Didn't play the damn thing since it's release, and am quite surprised how well it holds up for a game that's almost 15 years old. I mean from design and gameplay perspective it even feels like we've taken a step back with the modern shooters of today which boil down to super linear shooting galleries, whilst HL has you exploring and traversing tricky obstacles and such fun stuff.

cosmicolor

21-07-2012, 01:19 PM

I've hopped back onto the TF2 wagon recently, clocked up some 270 hours now. Still playing Virtua Fighter Final Showdown too, good fighter game. Also I recently got Tony Hawk 3 for the PC, inspired by nostalgia and the recent HD release in the series, which is supposedly kind of shit, sadly.

Rauten

21-07-2012, 01:25 PM

which is supposedly kind of shit, sadly.

Huh? I've heard that it's pretty much the same exact game with HD graphics, and the only feature that's missing is (who the hell thought this would be a good idea?!) split-screen multi. But other than that, good stuff.

cosmicolor

21-07-2012, 01:31 PM

I've heard from several people that have played it that the physics feel weird, the framerate is really low, it's really low on content for how expensive it is, the handling of reverts is weird and the soundtrack kind of sucks. Perhaps a patch or two will fix things up, who knows. I hope so since I'd probably get it if it gets fixed up/more content comes out.

On the other hand I just played Tony Hawk 3 again. It's like pure nostalgia being injected into my eyes.

laneford

21-07-2012, 05:36 PM

Binding of Isaac.

Finally killed mom.

Fumarole

21-07-2012, 05:52 PM

Just today I starting playing Shogun 2 multiplayer. Anyone from the RPS clan still playing?

SirKicksalot

21-07-2012, 06:31 PM

I finished FEAR: Perseus Mandate. The combat and some of the setpieces are excellent. It's a shame it looks so bad, as the bigger levels required sacrifices in other areas. But if combat is what you're looking for, this is the best FEAR experience.

Now I'm replaying FEAR 2. I didn't like it back in 2009. Now, right after its predecessors... HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS IS SO BAD! The combat is shit, with piss-poor weapons, worse movement and dumb AI. It also looks worse (although not as bad as some Perseus levels). Most objects have no shadows, the physics are mostly MIA, the combat effects like dust and holes in the walls are toned down, it's full of neon colours and the enemy design is insanely bad. You're fighting fucking Christmas trees! And half of them have explosive tanks taped to their back. It looks like Joel Schumacher's Batman movies, I shit you not! On top of this there's a very thick grain filter. The interface is GIGANTIC too.

What the hell happened to Monolith? Was Jace Hall really the only thing keeping the company afloat? This gen they started with two brilliant franchises and managed to run them both into the ground. No wonder they were eviscerated and ended up as a zombie studio.

I can't wait to get to FEAR 3. Some people claim Project Origin is better. They're insane. FEAR 3 is a lot more like the first game than this turd of a sequel.

Velko

21-07-2012, 06:39 PM

Crysis. Now tell me, is it really so that the enemies respawn endlessly? Because no matter what I do, I cannot clear camps or anything but am forced to cloak and sneak through everything. It's like using guns has suddenly become completely useless: shoot one guy, two more appear from behind the corner.

Fumarole

21-07-2012, 06:42 PM

They don't respawn at all, but reinforcements can arrive from other locations if the alarm is raised.

Velko

21-07-2012, 06:45 PM

They don't respawn at all, but reinforcements can arrive from other locations if the alarm is raised.

Dammit. So I just need to try harder...

At some points they appeared so suddenly that I was certain they dropped in from thin air, as it were. Felt like the endless respawning in Just Cause 2. But I'm happy if you're correct.

Oshada

21-07-2012, 07:07 PM

Binding of Isaac.

Finally killed mom.

And in the game?

Kadayi

21-07-2012, 09:47 PM

Just finished Spec Ops the line. My Steam review: -

Quite possibly one of the most unrelentingly dark games I can recall ever playing. The combat is very challenging and a little bit unforgiving for a 3rd person shooter (cover is a necessity, not an option). In fact I'd recommend playing it on easy in that regard (normal can be a bit too much of a try again slog), however it's made up for by the intriguing storyline, atmospheric setting, top notch voice work (Mr North leading the charge) and general aesthetic. It might not be quite punching the high notes of a full on AAA title, but it’s pretty solid and if you’re looking for something a little different worth looking at. Also wait through the credit sequence. Firm thumbs up.

Tritagonist

21-07-2012, 10:54 PM

vinraith

21-07-2012, 11:10 PM

Played the first few sequences of Batman: Arkham City. Not sure if I like this. There's a bit too many 'Press X', 'Press Y', 'Hold SPACE', etc. for my taste. I also ran into the same problem I have with most of these melee combat games; I can't figure out the relation between actions and results, when the one starts and the other ends. I'm sure this creates the fluid gameplay that is present here as well, but it makes it a bit of a mystery which moves were good vs. just OK.

I had essentially the same problem with it. Add to that the fights becoming genuinely difficult pretty early on (on normal difficulty) and I found it got very frustrating. I'm sure if I could figure out how not to just button mash it might work for me, but I find the whole thing oddly non-compelling. I found breaking up the Batman sequences with catwoman really jarring, too.

It's annoying, because it's a game I really want to like. I keep hoping I'll eventually go back to it and find something I didn't the first time.

elephant god

22-07-2012, 12:17 AM

I had some problems with Arkham City, too. It was just a little too much, after Arkham Asylum was so... everybody keeps saying it... tight. having preordered it on GMG and being postponed so many times didn't really help my feelings towards it, of course.

right now, I'm once again having a blast with Deus Ex: Human Revolution, which everyone seems to be rediscovering right now. Playing the missing link for the first time, that little DLC might just make my game of this year, even if the base is already a year old.

The game just shines with some classical music (Brahms right now, is that weird?) and a discover-everything approach, while gleefully planning the next playthrough without any equipment. no game has made me do that before.

magnus1969

22-07-2012, 12:33 AM

I can't wait to get to FEAR 3. Some people claim Project Origin is better. They're insane. FEAR 3 is a lot more like the first game than this turd of a sequel.

IMO it's to much like COD, there's not enough monsters (most of the time it's a human enemy), the jump moments are badly signposted and there's not enough 'what just happened?' moments. FEAR 2 was by far a bettergame.

augustuskent

22-07-2012, 06:32 AM

Ravelle

22-07-2012, 03:32 PM

Completed Max Payne 3, it had some gameplay problems but other than that it was an amazing game.

Finicky

22-07-2012, 05:10 PM

Still playing driver : SF so here are some new impressions.
-You get used to the lack of force feedback, the kind of akward non driving controls on a wheel and the primitive graphics. They are all missing things, rather than active detriments to the gameplay.

-For some reason during the first 3-4 hours you barely get any cars to drive, the game shows 20 odd locked out cars that you have to buy/unlock in the story and it appears that that is all the game has to offer.
As you go on more locked vehicles appear in the vehicle list (a lot more) and the city populates itself with way more cars.

-The beginning cars are no fun at all, they have no character, the physics are both arcadey and very generic dull.
-Several of the later cars actually get interesting handling (not just faster) , no idea why they made you play through 4 hours of shit to get to some fun cars but at least it gets better, initially I thought the driving in this game was FAR inferior to driver 1 but now it is similar (with ups and downs).

-The shifting to different cars mechanic has its ups and downs:
Chases boil down to parking a bus in the way of the car or driving into it from the opposite lane before switching back, which is far less fun than the proper chases from driver 1.
Races where you have to come in both 1st and second are a blast though, very cool idea there.

-shifting is akward and laborious and slow at first, then a few hours in the game lets you zoom out more, it's good that it becomes better but another one of those WHY OH WHY have unlocks that un-shit the game? Just do it right from the start!

-switching to cars in your garage needs improving, for some missions you need a strong car , for others an offroad one, for others a fast fragile one (well that's what the game encourages you to do at least) , but you can only switch mission car by going in your garage, scrolling through some console gimp list and watching an animation as the new car drives out then going all the way back to the mission start in birdseye view.
What this means is that despite buying a ton of cars, you never end up using any of them, I always just use the same allrounder until I get a better one..

Still, despite all it's glaring (some unforgivable) and not so glaring flaws there's a decent game underneath that can appeal to fans of driver and nfs most wanted.

Gorzan

22-07-2012, 06:19 PM

I've just finished Saints Row: The Third's main storyline. It was shorter than I expected it to be, and I'm not one for doing all of the activities, I'll keep coming back sometimes for as long as they stay fun but it was kind of a letdown on that regard.
I guess I'll go back to Deus Ex: HR now.

Totally Biased

22-07-2012, 07:09 PM

Just started playing Dragon Age 2, and to my surprise, I'm loving it so far. I played about 2 hours in to Origins and hated it, didn't click, hated the characters and the plot even the combat. My general rule of thumb is the first couple of hours either tell me good or bad. So far I'm loving 2.

Oh but a recommendation to anyone, start on hard, much more fun!

Maybe I'll go back to origins after!

I had the same experience as you, completed DA2 before Origins. When I went back and gave Origins a few more hours it became quite a lot more interesting, by now I've completed it twice, while DA2 has only seen that one quick playthrough.

Currently I'm playing Dwarf Fortress, every time I play that game I manage to become absorbed in only that for about a week before I quit for a few months when my fortress is destroyed.

Similar

22-07-2012, 08:47 PM

I bought 12 games in the past week, so of course I'm not playing any of those. Mostly it's been World of Tanks (getting a bit tired of the matchmaking, though), Open General, a bit of S.P.A.Z. and the Unity of Command demo.

SirKicksalot

22-07-2012, 09:07 PM

I finished FEAR 2. What an embarassing game! I'm not even sure why I kept playing after the first few levels.

And then I played the singleplayer DLC, FEAR 2: Reborn. Surprising the hell out of me, it turned out to be 40 minutes of 100% awesome. In these 40 minutes I went through a dozen different locations, witnessed a bunch of awesome setpieces, killed every enemy type from the main game, wielded most guns and was treated to an actually well made story. Great little DLC, lost in the shadow of its putrid main game.

squirrelfanatic

22-07-2012, 09:10 PM

Just logged off from the final Guild Wars 2 beta weekend. This weekend was the best (and longest) for me, I am really looking forward to the release. Had a look at most of the classes and races, now I've got ~5 weeks to decide what to play. My favourite so far: Charr Elementalist and Human Warrior, followed by Norn Ranger.

postinternetsyndrome

22-07-2012, 10:40 PM

Proctor Eldritch

22-07-2012, 11:20 PM

Playing around with Endless Space right now. It's my first 4X so I'm stumbling around quite a bit and getting my ass handed to me by the AI. I've been playing 1v1 to get a handle on the mechanics of expanding and developing science in a tactical way. Then there are the different advantages for each race to consider. Managed to win my first scenario last night. (I'm blue) (http://i.imgur.com/M036C.jpg)

Smashbox

22-07-2012, 11:53 PM

Completely off topic, but Palmer Eldrich is such a terrifying villain. Big ups.

The JG Man

23-07-2012, 12:02 AM

So I bought Sonic 4: Episode 2 earlier and I did a run-through in one sitting. It's such an...euch, I don't really know how to highlight it. Basically, it's not as good as games that came out 20 years ago which, if we're being frank, is some pretty hefty bullshit. It looks nice, although looks a lot nicer when you use Catalyst to give it AA (amongst other nice graphical sprinkles) which it completely lacks. Some of the music is pretty good (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6eIQ4ubAMg) whilst most of it is either mediocre or down-right bad. The physics are pretty good, but still off in places, but the absolute worst offender of the game is the level design. This stretches to the special stages too. Christ, I don't know what they were thinking at some parts. Springs and booster-pads are common making some sections auto-run, whilst other levels may contain gaping chasms that are not necessary other than for arbitrary difficulty.

Of the two Sonic games out this year, Sonic CD is by far and away better.

Nalano

23-07-2012, 12:06 AM

Proctor Eldritch

23-07-2012, 12:43 AM

Completely off topic, but Palmer Eldrich is such a terrifying villain. Big ups.

Heh, thanks. I thought about going with Palmer over Proctor, but something about Proctor seemed more appropriate to me. Now if only I could use Chew-Z in Endless Space to become ubiquitous dominate the galaxy...

Jockie

23-07-2012, 01:40 AM

Guild Wars 2 beta.

Ranger is fun. Learned how to keep pet alive. Now, pet is ridiculous tank that does champions three levels above it. Plus, if pet goes down, you can switch pet on the fly. Rinse, repeat.

What pets did you go with? I found Polar bear was a pretty ridiculous tank, soaking up damage that guardians/warriors would've died 10x over from. I favoured the jellyfish underwater. Quite a fan of the exploration required for finding pets, although the black citadel whiptail devourer hunt highlighted just how confusing that city is.

vinraith

23-07-2012, 02:11 AM

Finished Mass Effect 3 just now. Excellent game, top to bottom, and at least with the extended ending (never saw the original) I'm not bothered about the way it finishes either. My only complaint, perhaps amplified by having had to replay the finale twice because of it, is the continued vagueness of that damned conversation wheel (and the game's tendency to put important conversations far away from save points). I literally got the wrong ending because of this issue the first time, because I thought I was saying No, I won't borgify everyone and the game thought I was saying ] screw you AI, I'm going to let everyone die! . That second one doesn't even make any sense, mind you. Then again, that final choice isn't really much of a choice IMO, there's really only one option that's remotely acceptable. I can't imagine playing any character, paragon, renegade, or otherwise, that would choose anything other than destroy the reapers . It's a little disappointing that the closing cinematic doesn't at least show you more of the downside of that one, it's probably a little too upbeat.

Anyway, I had to replay half an hour, which mostly consisted of walking very slowly forward and watching cinematics I'd already seen, to get the ending I thought I was asking for the first time. It annoyed me more than a little. It seems to me all they'd have to do is, when you hover over a dialogue choice on the wheel, show you what the next dozen words that would come out of your mouth were going to be at the bottom of the screen. There, problem solved.

Eh, anyway, it's a gripe but it's not enough to make an excellent game less than excellent. What to play next, I wonder...

Nalano

23-07-2012, 03:06 AM

What pets did you go with? I found Polar bear was a pretty ridiculous tank, soaking up damage that guardians/warriors would've died 10x over from. I favoured the jellyfish underwater. Quite a fan of the exploration required for finding pets, although the black citadel whiptail devourer hunt highlighted just how confusing that city is.

This is Maumau (http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e342/jonmphy/GW2Beta/gw054.jpg). Maumau's a tree dog. Maumau can do anything with liberal use of Signet of Stone (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Signet_of_Stone), Signet of the Wild (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Signet_of_the_Wild) and Troll Unguent (http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Troll_Unguent).

Eh, anyway, it's a gripe but it's not enough to make an excellent game less than excellent. What to play next, I wonder...

A commander who doesn't shoot three of his crew, mayhaps?

sabrage

23-07-2012, 03:23 AM

Costume Quest: It's basic and a little mindless, but the writing is clever enough I suppose.
Serious Sam HD: The First Enounter: Only to be played in 20-30 minute sessions, before I get frustrated and bored. I don't think I'll be picking up TSE anytime soon.
The Void: I can see why this game isn't very popular. Someone needs to hire Ice Pick Lodge's environmental designers, fire their character modelers, and kill their writers.
The Binding of Isaac: 8 months after beating him, the game finally saw fit to give me my Krampus achievement. Would've been nice to get a worthless piece of coal for it, but whatever.

vinraith

23-07-2012, 03:27 AM

A commander who doesn't shoot three of his crew, mayhaps?

Well that would just be less fun, now wouldn't it? And anyway, Legion and Wrex were both self-defense, so I don't even feel bad about those. Honestly, I'm not sure how I'm ever going to play through with a goody-goody, being ruthless is so much more interesting.

Voon

23-07-2012, 03:54 AM

Making yet another Fortress. God, the last one messed up.

Nalano

23-07-2012, 04:06 AM

Well that would just be less fun, now wouldn't it? And anyway, Legion and Wrex were both self-defense, so I don't even feel bad about those. Honestly, I'm not sure how I'm ever going to play through with a goody-goody, being ruthless is so much more interesting.

Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: "A horrible person." We weren't even testing for that.

vinraith

23-07-2012, 04:29 AM

Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: "A horrible person." We weren't even testing for that.

Consider the source. Also, appreciate for a moment the irony of referencing something said by an evil AI in judging a character that (in my case) ruthlessly exterminated AI's. Hell, my Shep would consider GLADOS an excellent example of why it was necessary to cap Legion in the head four times.

Seriously though, I can't help but think Mass Effect wouldn't be half as appealing if one played it pure Paragon, because Paragon choices are the only ones you get in so many games. How often does a game actually let you say "screw the hostages, I'm shooting the bad guy?" Virtually never. Given a choice like that, I can either play it like every other game ever and save the hostages, or I can embrace the uniqueness of being given that choice and do the far more satisfying thing. That said, there are some choices that are less clear cut "Hollywood hero" vs. "pragmatic" than that. It'd certainly be interesting to play someone less AI-averse, for example, that was getting a little one-note toward the end. I wish the earlier games were more willing to reward non "purist" choices, 3's design with regards to intimidate/charm options was by far the best (and 2's arguably the worst).

Edit: Or, to fully play the role:

Now that the galaxy's been cleansed of AI, the next job is wiping out the krogan for being traitors to all organics. That's my Mass Effect 4 :p.

Nalano

23-07-2012, 04:36 AM

Consider the source.

A super-intelligent tsundere, who isn't even the bad guy by the end. You monster.

Nalano

23-07-2012, 05:07 AM

Now that the galaxy's been cleansed of AI, the next job is wiping out the krogan for being traitors to all organics. That's my Mass Effect 4 :p.

There are no words!

apricotsoup

23-07-2012, 08:47 AM

Sonic generations complete.

It was ok but after all the praise I can only assume I don't care for sonic games as much as everyone else.

sabrage

23-07-2012, 08:50 AM

There's only room for one Sonic game in my heart:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMm664IdjRI

Heliocentric

23-07-2012, 09:11 AM

There's only room for one Sonic game in my heart:

I'm on a mobile and the video won't play, so I'll assume it's Dr Robotniks mean bean machine.

Drake Sigar

23-07-2012, 09:50 AM

LA Noir. I'm trying to decide if I like it or not. I don't think I do. The best parts are the interrogation scenes, which either go really well or spectacularly wrong. There's three responses in every interrogation - truth, lying, and doubt. Truth accepts what the person is telling you as the truth, lying calls them out on their bullshit and prompts you to select a piece of evidence to back up your assertion. Doubt is tricky. It's a bluff, to be used when you want to get the suspect/witness to reveal something that you don't have any real proof on, and it's incredibly vague. Sometimes the main character will just launch into a vile speech and emotionally torture an innocent person when you only intended to get them to open up a little. You have no way of knowing how this asshole is going to go off until he's doing it.

Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I'm serious, that's what it says: "A horrible person." We weren't even testing for that.I shot Wrex without hesitation in the first game, and we were best bros for life. What do you think I'd do to someone I barely know? *pokes*

Giaddon

23-07-2012, 11:38 AM

The LA Noire options were initially titled "coax, force, lie", but they changed for some inexplicable reason. The original titles make much more sense.

Gorzan

23-07-2012, 11:58 AM

Getting closer to the end of Deus Ex: HR. After these two weeks not playing it I had forgotten how utterly bad the textures are.
Also, the fact that on the second visit to Heng-Sha Belltower men are enemies on the streets makes going from Point A to Point B and back forth really tiring.

Tikey

23-07-2012, 01:53 PM

I've been playing Driver San Francisco. Which is great. It's so silly and it knows it. The shifting mechanics are fun but somewhat hard to get the hang of. The soundtrack is brilliant.

Also I've finished the fourth episode of the final Sam & Max season. So only the finale is left. It started somewhat weak. But it's gotten much better.

Oshada

23-07-2012, 01:55 PM

The LA Noire options were initially titled "coax, force, lie", but they changed for some inexplicable reason. The original titles make much more sense.

I wonder whether there's a mod for that?

alms

23-07-2012, 02:25 PM

If not, you should make one!

tjv

23-07-2012, 02:27 PM

Started Zombie Shooter yesterday. Apparently it is not very long. Pretty daft, but lot of fun.

Dirt 2, one of my Steam purchases. For some reason never played this or the third one before. Used to love rally games, but they got too hardcore at one point. Or I got terrible. Anyway, already managed to sink in 30h to this. The courses start to repeat bit in the end. Want to finish the world tour at least. Just wish there was more older cars.

Sacred 2, now, for some reason I decided play this on PS3. Finished the first (from GOG) not too long ago. Not the most original game of course. Still decent enough. Usually on RPG, or any game for that matter I go with the character with the most grand beard. Majority of classes on Sacred 2 are half naked anime ladies. No thank you. The only beard was the mage dude, but wanted to get more melee style so ended up selecting the anubis alien character. Not that it is any more melee. Really feel like changing to PC version, but that would require me to buy another boxed copy of this. Targetting and the UI are really bad here. On top of that the alien character annoys the hell out of me with the clunky running animation and the "robotic" voice. But, might as well stick with this, probably finishing this on few months time.

Kodeen

23-07-2012, 02:46 PM

Still playing Fallout 3. I'm having a lot of fun with it, but these CTD's are really starting to piss me off. I'm getting one about once in every three play sessions.

Drake Sigar

23-07-2012, 06:56 PM

So I went to this apartment in LA Noir and found the place trashed. After I finished the case, I learned if I went straight there instead of taking in a side-mission, I could have caught the crooks in the act of the trashing. I'm always impressed when a game bothers to take time into consideration (like the hostage situation in Deus Ex: Hum Rev) if only because so few do it.

postinternetsyndrome

23-07-2012, 10:02 PM

As far as I know, the hostage situation in DXHR has nothing to do with time, and everything to do with whether you get detected or not.

Finicky

23-07-2012, 10:27 PM

Day z
Very first player I ran in to (some guy server hopping to loot the airfield tower, since I had been there for a good ten mins and had been in the tower when he came from up the stairs) didn't bother communicating , just stood there staring at me for 10seconds before he shot me.

This game's community is nothin more than deathmatch mode anymore, is it?

All in all very dissapointed in how barebones the mod itself is, almost none of the buildings can be entered and the zombie ai is retarded.

Compared to proper total conversions like bf1942 : DC this shit is amateur hour.

People say it's alpha but the mechanics behind it (random zombie spawning, sight and sound mechanics and crouching/prone) and just using arma 2 assets which arent suitable for this kind of game i.e no interiors) don't show any potential for ever becoming more then what it is now.

Thought I'd like this game (huge fan of stalker) but it's nowhere near stalker in functionality or quality (alpha buggyness aside).

Tikey

23-07-2012, 10:39 PM

As far as I know, the hostage situation in DXHR has nothing to do with time, and everything to do with whether you get detected or not.

Highlight for possible spoiler: If you spend too much time in Sarif Industries the hostages get killed.

Heliocentric

23-07-2012, 10:46 PM

Dirt 2, one of my Steam purchases. For some reason never played this or the third one before. Used to love rally games, but they got too hardcore at one point. Or I got terrible. Anyway, already managed to sink in 30h to this. The courses start to repeat bit in the end. Want to finish the world tour at least. Just wish there was more older cars.

It truly is a great game, its such a shame Dirt 3 bollocksed it up so much. Have you tried Dirt 2's multiplayer? Its GFWL but its honestly not so bad as lag barely matters in a racing game unless you are playing bumper cars and the net code seemed to be smart enough to prioritise close cars. Maybe Grid 2 will be good? If they ever make it (no announcements yet) clearly this Gymkhana BS sells better than real racing.

Berzee

24-07-2012, 12:25 AM

Now playing: Thief, Deadly Shadows. First impressions:

"Logo Movie? [ESC] Logo Movie! [ESC] Logo Movie... [ESC] Logo...Movie. [ESC] Logomovie [ESC] A movie with a logo in [ESC] PAPYRUS FONT! ... oooh, it feels like Thief. *plays until 4am*"

SirKicksalot

24-07-2012, 01:01 AM

Replaying FEAR 3 in singleplayer as Point Man.
After FEAR 2, the most obvious difference is the difficulty. It's HARD. It throws a lot of enemies at you, and they're a lot more mobile and deadly than in FEAR 2. Slo-mo is a necessity, much like in the first game. The weapons pack more punch and are harder to keep under control. It's incredible to me how Day 1 nails the feel and flow of the combat and creates an experience closer to that of the original game than Monolith. It's a very fast paced affair too because the enemies force you to be on the move and have eyes on your back. The bastards flank and supress really well.

The game has an excellent cover system. I find myself using it more than I used classic Q and E peek in the original. After a couple of minutes it becomes second nature to slide to cover and maneuver around it.

As for the horror - well, it's hard to take anything FEAR related seriously after the second game. This one has some very atmospheric scenes and I like the main villain monster than pops out at regular intervals. The cutscenes don't provide any "depth", "motivation" or "compelling reasons to play" but they're well made and Paxton Fettel is always entertaining. Point Man looks like a classic John Carpenter protagonist. I suspect Carpenter's involvement was something along the lines of "give the main dude a beard and long hair and turn the gore to 11".

The art direction was fixed too. This is more like "FEAR with colours" than the mess Project Origin was. It didn't bring back the particles of the first one and it abandoned liquid bullet trails. Perhaps they're a victim of the new engine/no budget combo.

I wonder where all the bad word of mouth is coming from. I already figured out that the COD comparisons come from the Brazil levels. Is it because Monolith isn't involved? But this is objectively better than what FEAR 2 was.

The JG Man

24-07-2012, 01:41 AM

I thought the scares in FEAR were lousy to begin with, but the ending of 2 where you get raped by a ghost was hilarious. Would you say then that FEAR 3 is worth it if you preferred 1 to 2? It seems to go for pretty cheap. I guess the ultimate question is if the shotgun is as satisfying.

SirKicksalot

24-07-2012, 02:18 AM

Yes, FEAR 3 is absolutely worth it if you liked 1 more than 2. It's fast, furious and difficult. I mean, finishing the second level alone is a bigger challenge than anything in FEAR 2 and mostly anything in FEAR.
The shotgun is extremely weird. I'm not sure its design makes any sense. It's not as satisfying as the first one - the sound effect lacks punch and the spread is bigger, although it still makes people explode. I finished FEAR 2 yesterday and can't even remember its shotgun, so I guess this one's better by default.

The game is RPS-approved (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/06/28/fear-3-pc-review/), if you care about this sort of thing.

Flint

24-07-2012, 08:41 AM

Finished Saints Row 3. I can now officially declare it as my favourite sandbox romp, and I'll also nominate my character as one of my favourite player characters - I chose the British male voice which has some fantastic acting and dialogue, and due to my character's sense of fashion (http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/595849980791194509/5221A9A51A4A6383E4D69B3D071BEBC0CD9FA611/) all the cutscenes became amazingly hilarious/hilariously amazing. And with the two factoids combined, the game essentially became Vince vs the world (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIbqusPqk68). Excellent gameplay, great writing and sense of humour, oodleloads of sheer fun and some truly inspired, memorable moments. Radio stations could have been better but thank heavens for the mixtape feature which should become a standard for this genre (even if for some bizarre reason my mixtape radio was seemingly constantly repeating Holding Out for a Hero to the point I had to remove it from the tracklist to actually hear anything else).

Now digging further into my recently acquired backlog - Zeno Clash! Which is... weird. Or kekking weird as they'd probably say. I'm actually really liking the gameplay concept and it's certainly wonderful to have a game world that's rather unique. There's a bit of an 'indie shoddiness' to it (you can somewhat feel the game stretching beyond its production values) but so far it's not been bothersome. Just wish the game would let me whack a bit more stuff, the recent levels have been a bit too shooting/gimmick combat focused, but I'm probably right when I assume it's only a temporary section of the game.

Wheelz

24-07-2012, 09:39 AM

Just started Dear Esther. It's uh, been interesting so far. I was a little bit disappointed with the graphics, as I was expecting them to be super amazing (although my pc is probably holding them back a fair bit), they certainly arn't bad however.
I was also sort of expecting it be a game about exploring an island with a story. It's not. It's a game about following a path while random segments of a story are ocasionally told to you.

That said, I don't think it's terrible, and so far I'm fairly happy with it considering the price I paid.

Heliocentric

24-07-2012, 09:46 AM

That said, I don't think it's terrible, and so far I'm fairly happy with it considering the price I paid.

The best thing is, these guys are making the amnesia sequelette Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, just imagine these guys with ready laid out mechanics able to make a haunting world and populate it with legitimate opponents.

It could be epic, if Frictional don't let anyone from Dear Esther write the plot :P

Wheelz

24-07-2012, 09:53 AM

The best thing is, these guys are making the amnesia sequelette Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, just imagine these guys with ready laid out mechanics able to make a haunting world and populate it with legitimate opponents.

It could be epic, if Frictional don't let anyone from Dear Esther write the plot :P

Yeah, I am quite excited for that. They did a pretty good job on creating the atmosphere of an isolated island with Dear Esther, and Amnesia is pretty much built on atmosphere, so it should be interesting to see what happens.

Gorzan

24-07-2012, 10:19 AM

I'm almost inside the boat on Deus Ex: HR. Should I keep with the main game normally or should I stop to play The Missing Link on it's right chronological order?

Saints Row: The Third is holding out well for me without it's history, maybe this is the game I manage 100%? (spoiler: no it isn't)

I'm also having much fun with Simcity 4.

F. Lynx Pardinus

24-07-2012, 11:41 AM

tjv

24-07-2012, 11:45 AM

It truly is a great game, its such a shame Dirt 3 bollocksed it up so much. Have you tried Dirt 2's multiplayer? Its GFWL but its honestly not so bad as lag barely matters in a racing game unless you are playing bumper cars and the net code seemed to be smart enough to prioritise close cars. Maybe Grid 2 will be good? If they ever make it (no announcements yet) clearly this Gymkhana BS sells better than real racing.

No haven't tried the MP. Didn't think it would have active players anymore, but will give it a shot.
So Dirt 3 has lot of Gymkhana events and not as many races? My only exposure to is from the GB Quick Look while back. At least the car list for Dirt 3 looks more interesting with 60-90's cars. Wish they brought back Rally Trophy.

Anthile

24-07-2012, 11:46 AM

Heliocentric

24-07-2012, 11:51 AM

No haven't tried the MP. Didn't think it would have active players anymore, but will give it a shot.
So Dirt 3 has lot of Gymkhana events and not as many races? My only exposure to is from the GB Quick Look while back. At least the car list for Dirt 3 looks more interesting with 60-90's cars. Wish they brought back Rally Trophy.
IIRC, Dirt3 has more rally, but its bloody short tracks, If you really want rally get Richard Burns Rally and force anti aliasing, You'll be needing a steering wheel for that one.

Morrowind as a Dark Elf

Dont you remember? They still hate you as you are a foreign dark elf.

F. Lynx Pardinus

24-07-2012, 12:00 PM

Well, most folks in Skyrim are obviously Nords but people will only rarely comment on your race and I don't think it ever influences the story or quests. The Stormcloaks are fairly racist though and if you want to join them as a non-Nord they look at you suspiciously but they will accept you anyway.

Ok, that makes sense. I just don't want to replicate my nonsensical experience playing Dragon Age 2 for the first time as a mage. "By the way, I'm sure glad they locked all the mages up in the tower," says the man 30 seconds after he clearly saw me throw a fireball out of the giant stick I'm inexplicably carrying.

F. Lynx Pardinus

24-07-2012, 12:02 PM

Dont you remember? They still hate you as you are a foreign dark elf.
But then you could interpret the main quest as you awakening your lost heritage.

Heliocentric

24-07-2012, 12:10 PM

But then you could interpret the main quest as you awakening your lost heritage.

I interpreted the main quest as being a magic immune Breton with +200 speed boots who runs around in a dress.

AND IN THE GAME

Drake Sigar

24-07-2012, 12:15 PM

So I purchased Skyrim this Steam sale. As far as I remember, the plot of the previous games made the most sense (to me at least) if you played as a native: Morrowind as a Dark Elf and Oblivion as an Imperial. Does this continue in Skyrim? Should I play as a Nord? I thought it was just me that applied this kind of thinking in Elder Scrolls games.

In my opinion playing a Nord gives you a connection to the land, even if there's very little acknowledgement of that by the other characters. It's a little more difficult to justify siding with the Nords in the civil war if you're not a Nord yourself, because they treat other races with much mistrust.

F. Lynx Pardinus

24-07-2012, 12:17 PM

I interpreted the main quest as being a magic immune Breton with +200 speed boots who runs around in a dress. AND IN THE GAME

Haha, well done. I picked up a super flying staff somewhere in the mountains and spent much of Morrowind in the equivalent of a noclip mode (though I couldn't fly through walls sadly).

In my opinion playing a Nord gives you a connection to the land, even if there's very little acknowledgement of that by the other characters. It's a little more difficult to justify siding with the Nords in the civil war if you're not a Nord yourself, because they treat other races with much mistrust.

That makes sense, thanks!

eRa

24-07-2012, 02:19 PM

Just killed Mom for the first time in Binding of Isaac (took 12 hours all in all). Now I'm in for some Gods and Kings as Theodora.

Serenegoose

24-07-2012, 02:46 PM

I'm playing a lot of Endless space, besides a re-run through Bioshock 2 (the better one) and Psychonauts.

Serenegoose

24-07-2012, 02:47 PM

Just killed Mom for the first time in Binding of Isaac (took 12 hours all in all). Now I'm in for some Gods and Kings as Theodora.

You have encountered: Suleiman of the Ottomans (zoom to capital?)

magnus1969

24-07-2012, 02:54 PM

I wonder where all the bad word of mouth is coming from. I already figured out that the COD comparisons come from the Brazil levels. Is it because Monolith isn't involved? But this is objectively better than what FEAR 2 was.

No it's not. As I've said before;

1. The supernatrual events are not properly signposted.
2. Too many human enemies.
3. No standout moments except for the 'tinitus' moment.
4. Two weapon loadout.
5. The walker sections aren't as good as FEAR 2's.
6. The end was pointless and under explained.

eRa

24-07-2012, 03:32 PM

You have encountered: Suleiman of the Ottomans (zoom to capital?)

He actually is in my game, but he is pretty weak at the moment.

PeteC

24-07-2012, 03:43 PM

Finished Bastion. I chose to [spoilers]save Zulf, then evacuate[spoilers]

Now onto The Walking Dead.

Doodier

24-07-2012, 04:54 PM

I just finished Alpha Protocol and I am PISSED! During all the mission I was trying to be non-lethal but it's not really that easy when you can have only 36 tranquilizer rounds on yourself plus I somehow missed 3 (THREE!!!) objectives in the last misson even though I 100%d' all the other missions. I have no idea how that happened.
Oh yes, these objectives had something to do with Mina (I did not rescue her) and possibly Scarlet so they are probably dead. Plus I had to repeat this one bit after the fight with S. Darcy like a bazillion times because the game did not spawn the chopper where it should've been. Peachy.
I wanted to praise this game so much but now I just feel betrayed by my own country! Err, I mean by the game, of course.

The JG Man

24-07-2012, 05:16 PM

Trucking on with Serious Sam: Second Encounter and I think I've completed the second full level. Still, allow me to offer you some perspective; estimated play time of around 1 hour, according to the post-level stats. Saves - 45.

There are few other games that I would permit me going "Oooooooooh shit!" to this frequently, but even when I inevitably die and have to reload, it's still worth it.

FunnyB

24-07-2012, 06:27 PM

magnus1969

24-07-2012, 07:23 PM

Vessel

Such a lovely game! Definitely the best surprise from the Steam summer sale so far. Never read the RPS articles on it back when it was released, so had no idea of what kind of game it was. It's really addicting!
Just made it through the factory.
Does a quad-core help with the performance because I am getting a lot of slow-down, ( at the moment I have Windows 7 and a GTX 560 and 4g of RAM).

FunnyB

24-07-2012, 08:53 PM

Does a quad-core help with the performance because I am getting a lot of slow-down, ( at the moment I have Windows 7 and a GTX 560 and 4g of RAM).

Hmmm... Well, I have a hexacore CPU but an old Radeon HD4670, and it seems to work well for me. I get a few frameskips in certain rooms, but I can definitely live with that.

magnus1969

24-07-2012, 08:58 PM

Hmmm... Well, I have a hexacore CPU but an old Radeon HD4670, and it seems to work well for me. I get a few frameskips in certain rooms, but I can definitely live with that.
Well, I'll find at the end of August.

John

24-07-2012, 09:27 PM

Guild wars 2, only recently. But need to wait for the release. For me this is going to be THE game for a long time. To be correct, the currently game I play is LoL for time to time.

Tritagonist

24-07-2012, 09:29 PM

Played a bit of Test Drive Unlimited 2. The driving with a wheel is a bit 'meh'. Not very impressed by that, so I'll have to see if there's some tweaking that can be done with various settings to make it a bit more interesting. The original TDU was never great at this either, but I don't recall it being this wobbly. On another note, it's such a shame that they recreated a lot of the actual real-world roads and then just placed random buildings everywhere. Anyway, a typical 'nothing special, but worth a couple of euros' kind of racing game.

Still waiting for that free-roam racer with decently realistic physics and an interesting and detailed world!

Drake Sigar

24-07-2012, 11:03 PM

LA Noir bored me for a while by providing several random cases, but I'm really getting into it after being promoted to Homicide. I've been given interconnected cases with the same MO. There's a serial killer on the loose out there who has become my arch-nemesis, and every time I start a new related case I say to myself "this is the one where I'll finally nail the bastard." But it never seems to happen. I always end up with insurmountable evidence against an obvious suspect which just smells wrong.

Bah. One day he'll make a mistake, and then I'll pounce on him like a ninja.

alms

24-07-2012, 11:36 PM

but I'm really getting into it after being promoted to Homicide.

Traffic is pretty much an extended tutorial.

SirKicksalot

25-07-2012, 02:04 AM

Replaying Prince of Persia 2008. What a wonderful game! The presentation and atmosphere are amazing. I enjoy the focus on timing and "going with the flow" for platforming. Was never a fan of precision platforming. The combat is much better now that I'm using a controller.
In my two previous attempts to play this I abandoned it when facing the immortal boss. I think I'll play it to the end now.

vinraith

25-07-2012, 02:51 AM

Alright, I'm done with Alice: Madness Returns. Interesting art design (though too much of the first chapter is drab and industrial), but ultimately much too repetitive, much too padded out, and much too platformy for my tastes. The combat's pretty good, but even that gets old, and don't get me started on all the instadeath platforming elements. So, yeah, done. Didn't pay much for it, didn't get much out of it, fair all around.

Considering going back to Hegemony Gold, or starting a new game of Fallout New Vegas (gotta check my mods to make sure I'm up to date),or both. We'll see what sticks.

Edit: While I'm dicking around, I think I'll try this copy of Theatre of War 2 a charming individual gifted me awhile back and see if it sucks.

Edit2: Based on messing around with it for a short while it appears to be a crude version of Men of War.

Giaddon

25-07-2012, 03:19 AM

Finished To the Moon. Fantastic experience.

TechnoJellyfish

25-07-2012, 08:38 AM

Blowing stuff up with a purple attack helicopter to the sound of Wagner doesn't seem to get old ...

Related question: When is the best time to do the Season Pass DLC missions (before/after completion of the main story) and in what chronological order?

Gorzan

25-07-2012, 09:33 AM

I'd say you can do them whenever you feel, they don't really have any tie to the story and give you some cool stuff when completed, and if for some reason you want to do them again you can repeat them as many times as you please.

Since I finished Deus Ex: HR, from wich I didn't really like all of the Panchea bit, I started with Just Cause 2. It seems fun, but the interface is ugly as all hell, the subtitles are too low on the screen and the voicework is kind of bad. Nothing I can't get used to, though.

Velko

25-07-2012, 09:47 AM

Just Cause 2. It seems fun, but the interface is ugly as all hell, the subtitles are too low on the screen and the voicework is kind of bad. Nothing I can't get used to, though.

"Kind of bad" is a massive understatement I think. It hovers somewhere between "hilariously terrible" and "a crime against humanity".

V1Pelite

25-07-2012, 10:25 AM

im playing minecraft

apricotsoup

25-07-2012, 10:25 AM

Gorzan

25-07-2012, 10:32 AM

"Kind of bad" is a massive understatement I think. It hovers somewhere between "hilariously terrible" and "a crime against humanity".
For gaming standards that actually means kind of bad.

Velko

25-07-2012, 10:37 AM

For gaming standards that actually means kind of bad.

Hehe, probably so!

ColdSpiral

25-07-2012, 10:52 AM

Was lucky enough to nab Prototype 2 cheap (well, Aus-cheap) when it launched on Steam at the wrong price. It's not a terrible port, surprisingly; in fact it currently runs better on my system than the original (mouse-lag bugs etc.) and it looks fantastic. I'm enjoying the gameplay; it hasn't really departed from #1 yet but everything is more fluid and polished... except the target+autoaim system with ranged weapons, which I could do without. But who'd use guns in Prototype anyway, right?

Heliocentric

25-07-2012, 11:08 AM

Ass Rev, completely forgotten the nonsense story from brotherhood so mildly lost there but that's nothing new and the story isn't something I really care about.

Constantinople feels like a rehashed Damascus and I don't remember the engine looking this bad before but that's probably just in comparison to other games.

Overall it feels ok but I understand the disappointment after brotherhood was actually quite fun as this feels even more like the same old thing.Hearing that, I might just honestly skip it. Such a shame to hear even a brotherhood fan (like myself) finds rev a failure.

Alright, I'm done with Alice: Madness Returns. Interesting art design (though too much of the first chapter is drab and industrial), but ultimately much too repetitive, much too padded out, and much too platformy for my tastes. The combat's pretty good, but even that gets old, and don't get me started on all the instadeath platforming elements. So, yeah, done. Didn't pay much for it, didn't get much out of it, fair all around.
I'm glad I finished it, but I wouldnt wish it on anyone, does that make sense? Why not watch a cutrscene video to fill your experience in?
Part 1: http://youtu.be/tmLOtLN5RBA
just skip ahead to wherever you are.