What are you playing at the moment? [Archive] - Page 30

airtekh

25-07-2012, 01:28 PM

Finished Prince of Persia; great platformer, but a bit of a daft ending. I'm a sucker for these kinds of games like PoP and the most recent Tomb Raiders. I just find there's something so satisfying about being in a giant room and figuring out how to traverse it using the environment and various acrobatics.

Started and finished Batman: Arkham City's Harley Quinn DLC. Quite short, (I finished it in just under two hours) but I didn't pay much for it either so I can't complain. Not bad.

Moved swiftly onto Space Marine. Took me a while to get used to the combat, but now that I am I'm having a blast. One thing that's annoying me though, is getting stuck into some melee combat, and dying because I'm still getting shot at by someone. It reminds me of Zeno Clash, because I remember that happening to me in that game and it really annoyed me then too.

Also playing some Team Fortress 2 with the newly-formed RPS TF2 group.

Giaddon

25-07-2012, 01:37 PM

I liked Assassin's Creed: Revelations a lot more than Brotherhood. But then, I'm not playing these games for the story.

Casimir Effect

25-07-2012, 07:50 PM

Ravelle

25-07-2012, 10:01 PM

Bolo Santosi has the voice of an angel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5o0XOFrFOVI

She sounds like that voodoo priest from Pirates of the caribbean.

Fumarole

25-07-2012, 10:05 PM

Well that's a shitty end to an otherwise great experience. Empire Total War now has a decent chance of failing to properly save a game or just crashes when loading it for some reason. For example, the quick save crashes while loading as does the proper save made a couple of minutes before (bar gets to about 20% the crash to desktop), but the autosave at the end of the previous turn loads fine. I really wanted to get full world domination but I'm not sure I want to play this roulette of game saving, never knowing if I'll end an evening only to have to replay all the battles on the next one.

The annoying thing is this doesn't seem to be an isolated problem, more CA dropping the ball and just saying fuck it. They're still great developers but shit like this is irritating.That's a bummer. I think I experienced something like this back when the game was fairly new, but it was years ago and my memory isn't quite what it used to be (I blame the grey hairs, I think they're simply grey matter pushed up through the skull). I assume you're patched to the latest version?

edit - have you tried the solution suggested in this thread (http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/topic/72617/Save-game-corrupted#.UBBuCWGe67w)?

Sketch

25-07-2012, 10:51 PM

Play Assassins Creed Revelations, guys. It came way, way too soon after Brotherhood but the Altair bits are really good and after having put the game down for so long, I'm glad I'm back into it again. I'm surprised people are saying it looks old, it seems like a great looking game still.

Casimir Effect

25-07-2012, 11:24 PM

That's a bummer. I think I experienced something like this back when the game was fairly new, but it was years ago and my memory isn't quite what it used to be (I blame the grey hairs, I think they're simply grey matter pushed up through the skull). I assume you're patched to the latest version?

edit - have you tried the solution suggested in this thread (http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/topic/72617/Save-game-corrupted#.UBBuCWGe67w)?
Steam version so should be fully up to date.

Thanks for the link, I found the editor and tried saving the file again as a different name and still the same problem - the exact same as the guy describes in the link. I'm close to the end so might try sitting down at the weekend and doing a long session where I set all my large European cities to build armies and crush every last non-British city in a turn or two. It's probably possible but not really the end I wanted for my campaign.

I also want to note the corrupt savegames are for the year 1776, so this could be some kind of revenge for putting down the USA faction about 30 years ago.

Fumarole

25-07-2012, 11:29 PM

I also want to note the corrupt savegames are for the year 1776, so this could be some kind of revenge for putting down the USA faction about 30 years ago.Oh, well in that case you deserve it.

(•‿•)

LTK

26-07-2012, 12:09 AM

Well, damn. I thought of this really awesome way to take off in an airplane when you don't have any runway, but I can't make it work. This is my plan:

1. Acquire airplane
2. Acquire helicopter powerful enough to lift the airplane
3. Tether airplane and helicopter together
4. Enter helicopter
5. Airlift airplane really high
6. Exit helicopter
7. Enter airplane while it is in freefall
8. Fire up the engines and fly away Like A Boss

In Just Cause 2, the plan falls apart at step 7. When I grapple onto the airplane, I can stunt jump onto it for a few seconds before I get ragdolled, and during those few seconds it's not possible to get in. So the only remaining possibility is to go to multiplayer and get another person in the plane before airlifting it, and go full throttle once they're both in the air.

The militaries of the world might also want to thank me because the above method makes airfields with long runways obsolete!

Heliocentric

26-07-2012, 12:11 AM

The militaries of the world might also want to thank me because the above method makes airfields with long runways obsolete!My suggestion is to drag the plane by the nose, I think it'll take longer to point down and accelerate slower. needs testing.

fiddlesticks

26-07-2012, 10:07 AM

Gozuu

26-07-2012, 10:12 AM

Kingdom Under Fire: Gold (A war of Heroes 1.7 Patch)
An RTS/RPG Hybrid similar to Warcraft II (With Heroes however, which was first introduced in WCIII: RoC)
Campaigns as Human or Orc/Ogre with cinematics, storyline and a large amount of units/upgrades. Beware: You cannot mass-select, but you can bind unit groups as with Warcraft. Your best option is to "TPB" the game, as Phantagram & Blue Side will not release it, I have actually e-mailed them about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxDC2yxiAyA

Similar

26-07-2012, 10:14 AM

Heliocentric

26-07-2012, 10:37 AM

Though considering his failure rate, I'd assume that this wasn't really intented to be possible.

Isnt that the point of sandbox? They dont need to give you permission to build a machine that prints out houses in minecraft or have tractor vs helicopter hunts or use fuel barrels to simulate nuclear devastation, these things are what makes sandbox special BECAUSE no-one ever planned for it.

elephant god

26-07-2012, 10:58 AM

Been playing a very slight bit of Just Cause 2 (I'm sick, so gaming isn't really the thing for me right now) and noticed that, like the first time I played the game, on another system, the intro cutscene's sounds are way off. The voices aren't that off, but all the shooting and other background sounds end way before the cutscene does, like halfway through or so.

Does this happen to other people?

The cutscenes in Just Cause are terrible. They somehow ignore some of the sound settings, and since i usually have the sound turned way down (just cause 2 is one of the best games to play while watching sth on a second monitor), it usually blasts me in the face with the noise of some approaching truck, as soon as the cutscene starts.

LTK

26-07-2012, 11:14 AM

I don't want to spam this thread with Youtube videos of Just Cause 2, but someone did manage a successful mid-air grab of a plane. Though considering his failure rate, I'd assume that this wasn't really intented to be possible.
Yep, that's exactly how I failed every time as well. The key seems to be to sling the plane back and forth a bit so that you are in the position to grapple onto the top, and that the plane stays relatively horizontal. The reason that it's so hard must be because of the collision detection being much more sensitive to vertical collisions than horizontal ones, so you get ragdolled every time you try.

Another thing that makes JC2 a rubbish PC port: No quicksaves. No saves at any time in fact, because every saved game puts you right back at a stronghold instead of where you were originally. That means every time you jump out of that chopper, you need to land, buy a new plane and chopper, and climb all the way back up again. Would be so much easier if it just remembered where the hell you saved your game.

Flint

26-07-2012, 02:08 PM

Finished Zeno Clash. Enjoyed it but probably never going to replay it. Liked what it did but not enough to really make me care.

Been playing a couple of other things now. Guardians of Graxia is entertaining enough but lacks a bit of, I dunno, depth? The mechanics are fairly swell (though a bit ropey here and there) but I feel like I've already seen everything the game has to offer during the first few missions. Duels of the Planeswalkers for example, seeing as it's the most recent rather similar game, has that constant element of growth and depth to it - you're building your own deck (even if from presets), opening up new tactics and units as you go and adjusting your playstyle according to your opponent. In Graxia every single fight is more or less identical, and while you get new units/spells as you progress (without any mention, they just appear if they appear when the RNG decides) they don't really seem to be that drastically different. It probably makes for an excellent boardgame to play now and then, but when turned into a PC game campaign it's a bit awkward. But still, mechanics are swell enough and I've been enjoying a game now and then. Bloody challenging too, so there's that if anyone cares.

Also installed The Binding of Isaac today. Already lost a few hours to it and I'm pretty sure I'll be addicted to this for a fair bit now.

Tritagonist

26-07-2012, 04:03 PM

Played a bit more of Test Drive Unlimited 2. I don't think I'll continue much further. The force feedback and controls with a wheel are just bad, unresponsive and the feeling with the car is just not there. It might be fun with a controller, but I don't much care for playing a racing game with that.

Time to try one of the adventure games I picked up during the Steam sale!

Heliocentric

26-07-2012, 04:14 PM

I feel odd talking about it what with them having a thread over yonder but.

Bloodbowl Legendary and Solium Infernium are both drinking up my free brain cycles, while Shoot Many Robots does an excellent impression of Diablo addictiveness taking up my spare motor function.

My soul needs a game and I'm all good.

neema_t

26-07-2012, 04:20 PM

The militaries of the world might also want to thank me because the above method makes airfields with long runways obsolete!

I did this on the PS3 version:

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

I'm currently playing Alpha Protocol and really not getting on with it too well. Between one bizarre glitch where I teleported from the ground to the top of a crate I was standing next to which somehow triggered a checkpoint that I hadn't reached yet, which in turn caused an important room (needed to use the ladder inside it) to not load and the general feeling of half-arsedness, I'm just not enjoying it. I'm on one mission where I keep getting spotted by this one guy even though I'm nowhere near him and the last checkpoint was ages before, and required me to do two of those 'godawful what in the Christ were they thinking this sucks did anyone even try this with a mouse' hacking things, so I got fucked off and left it. I do want to like it and almost did, but the hacking thing got the better of me. I'll try again when it's not so damn hot, I get extremely short tempered when I sweat.

Tikey

26-07-2012, 04:26 PM

I finished Season 3 of Sam & Max.
I liked it but I think I had more fun with the other two seasons.

Also playing a bit of Driver SF. It's bloody brilliant. I'm having so much silly fun with it.

The JG Man

26-07-2012, 05:20 PM

I have decided that Serious Sam (Second Encounter) is actually a puzzle game. "If I use this bomb now, will I have enough normal ammo to take down this boss and horde of monsters?" Yes, if by bomb you mean 3 of them and all your cannonballs.

Good god, such a great game. There needs to be more Serious Sams in the world.

Hypernetic

26-07-2012, 05:21 PM

I'll tell you what I WILL be playing whenever SOE finished maintenance on their website, PLANETSIDE 2 BITCHES!
=D

Track

26-07-2012, 05:47 PM

Been playing quite a bit of Borderlands lately, all in single player. Quite an addictive game, and I love the art style and world of it. That being said, the horrible save system, combined with the constantly respawning enemies, is starting to irritate me. There was one particularly annoying segment in which I completed a quest that required that I take out all the bandits in an area. It was a difficult fight, but I pulled it off, saved, and quit. When I went back to the game, I respawned back at the "hub" town, as always, and went to go collect my payment for the quest. Then I realized that to get that payment, i'd have to go back through the bandit-infested area. I had already killed all of them once, but since the enemies respawn whenever you come back to the game, I had to do it again. Which is just incredibly bad design.

alms

26-07-2012, 05:52 PM

Played the train station in Stacking yesterday. The art direction is incredibly fantastic beyond my wording ability, and the gameplay hit me with the force of a huge, screaming MEH like a steam engine coming out of a silverscreen.

Alastor

26-07-2012, 07:56 PM

I have a question. I want to play a D&D game and one of the comment in a news said that planescape torment is the best of all and he gave the link of some mods to play with it http://thunderpeel2001.blogspot.ca/2009/01/planescape-torment-fully-modded.html and http://www.gog.com/en/news/mod_spotlight_planescape_torment_mods_guide/

But now, with this coming out (http://kotaku.com/5928997/baldurs-gate-is-back-new-characters-dungeon-coming-september-1) I don't know what to play since im sure one or the other is quite long.

And there's Neverwinter Night too...

vinraith

26-07-2012, 07:58 PM

Heliocentric

26-07-2012, 08:01 PM

Planescape is, without question, the worst D&D game you could possibly play, if your intent is to play a D&D game. As an implementation of D&D rules, it's a disaster, its strengths are entirely in its story.But if you want to explore a world which feels almost entirely surprising and has a story capable of challenging your principle values it does quite well.

vinraith

26-07-2012, 08:02 PM

But if you want to explore a world which feels almost entirely surprising and has a story capable of challenging your principle values it does quite well.

Yup, anyone that's unfamiliar with the setting will find it quite remarkable. But if you're looking to play a D&D game? Good lord, look anywhere else.

Nalano

26-07-2012, 08:04 PM

Yup, anyone that's unfamiliar with the setting will find it quite remarkable. But if you're looking to play a D&D game? Good lord, look anywhere else.

And with that, I think we've summed up every conversation with Wizardry ever.

Alastor

26-07-2012, 08:05 PM

Planescape is, without question, the worst D&D game you could possibly play, if your intent is to play a D&D game. As an implementation of D&D rules, it's a disaster, its strengths are entirely in its story.

oh okay, so what is the best D&D game between Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Night ? and is Planescape is good enough to play it ?

vinraith

26-07-2012, 08:10 PM

oh okay, so what is the best D&D game between Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Night ? and is Planescape is good enough to play it ?

If you want to experience classic D&D, the Baldur's Gate series is probably your best bet. It's a good implementation of the rules, and still has a strong story to carry you along. NWN was designed as a multiplayer game, and falls somewhat flat in SP.

Planescape is widely considered a classic, and widely loved. Its mechanics are terrible, but most people find that the characters, story, and setting completely trump that. Personally, I can't get into it (despite repeatedly trying), but considering how widely loved it is even I'd have to recommend you give it a try. Considering what these things cost, it's a sensible gamble.

And with that, I think we've summed up every conversation with Wizardry ever.

He's gone, dude. Let it go.

I really do think the novelty of the setting hooked a lot of folks, and may be part of the reason I always bounce off the game. Having run several Planescape campaigns, I can't help but see the game (or at least those first few hours that I've dragged myself through) as a hideous under-utilization of a fantastic setting.

Heliocentric

26-07-2012, 08:21 PM

If you want to experience classic D&D, the Baldur's Gate series is probably your best bet. It's a good implementation of the rules, and still has a strong story to carry you along. NWN was designed as a multiplayer game, and falls somewhat flat in SP.
*slaps vinraith's bagel out of his mouth*
Hes Wrong, while being right. NWN original campaign is terrible, even when its graphics didnt look at bad to out eyes as tey do now it wasn't a good game. But the expansion packs? Shadows of Undrentide and Hordes of the Underdark are legitimately fun if you can squint through the aged graphics, indeed Hordes of the Underdark is one of the Bioware games I most vividly remember, thankfully I have set my rose tinting of the graphics to 11. It is split into distinct areas narratively and follows on from the first Expansion directly, but characters from the original campaign show up.

It actually touches on matters of the Planes as well as Planescape does at times, when you play this you'll see loads of the content that recurred in mass effect and dragon age in bizzarely proto-form. It starts with a good dungeon romp too, it also features one of the better "build the team" plots that Bioware ever did.

vinraith

26-07-2012, 08:23 PM

I can't speak to Hordes of the Underdark, I really ought to play that one more, but I wasn't wild about Undrentide. NWN's graphics also look far worse to my eye than BG's, at this point.

Regardless though Helio, as a first D&D experience wouldn't something with a full party be better?

Heliocentric

26-07-2012, 08:26 PM

I can't speak to Hordes of the Underdark, I really ought to play that one more, but I wasn't wild about Undrentide.

Regardless though Helio, as a first D&D experience wouldn't something with a full party be better?Hmm... I grew to despite BG1 after running through it after carrying a character to the end of BG2:ToB, so I don't recommend that for a first game. Icewind Dale is great if you just want dungeons, but Hordes of the Underdark is a sweet spot for me in that has clever bits, and charming characters (mainly the bloodthirsty sword).

Maybe just skip to BG2?

Nalano

26-07-2012, 08:26 PM

I recommend Hordes of the Underdark. It's pretty much a straight D&D dungeon crawl, and grants the largest boon to Neverwinter Nights' cross-classing and prestige class abilities.

vinraith

26-07-2012, 08:29 PM

The problem with both BG2 and Hordes as suggestions, though, is that a player new to D&D isn't going to know how to build a higher level character for themselves.

Heliocentric

26-07-2012, 08:39 PM

The problem with both BG2 and Hordes as suggestions, though, is that a player new to D&D isn't going to know how to build a higher level character for themselves.
Hordes solves that, a default auto leveling Paladin/Ranger/Cleric will do just fine.

Maybe graphics mods could make it look less like ass?

fiddlesticks

26-07-2012, 08:56 PM

If you're interested in a video game adaption of DnD that's as faithful as possible to the tabletop experience, I recommend Temple of Elemental Evil (http://www.gog.com/gamecard/the_temple_of_elemental_evil). It lets you build a complete party from level 1 onwards and gives you a lot of options to customize your characters. It's also uses the 3.5 ruleset, which is slightly less broken than the 2nd edition featured in Baldur's Gate and the 3rd edition featured in Neverwinter Nights.

Just be sure to download the Circle of Eight mod (http://www.moddb.com/mods/circle-of-eight-modpack/downloads), which fixes a lot of bugs left in the vanilla game and offers some additional content.

Fumarole

26-07-2012, 09:12 PM

Anthile

26-07-2012, 09:32 PM

NWN2 is fairly solid and unlike BG2 and Hordes of Underdark it starts you as level 1 with two expansions that are supposed to be very good.

Casimir Effect

26-07-2012, 10:08 PM

Remember there is the difference between Baldurs Gate & Icewind Dale and NWN 1 & 2 in the rulesets. The former use 2nd Edition while the latter are 3rd which, correct me if I'm wrong (never played proper D&D) is easier to get into if you are unfamiliar. NWN 1 & 2 seemed far better at closing paths off that were inappropriate - like not letting fighters choose spellcraft or shit like that which could waste your character.

For my part I'd recommed Icewind Dale 1 or Baldur's Gate 2 if you want the D&D game experience. After doing BG2 you can try the first game but that is far harder to get into; NWN 1 is a decent game but gets very repetitive, and the start has a bit of a dickish learning curve; NWN 2 is better but the first chapter requires some major determination to get through; Undrentide I've only played once but remember it being the single most tedious D&D-game experience I've ever had; never played HotU; Icewind Dale 2 is good fun but I think the first is better; and Planescape is brilliant as an experience but the gameplay is certainly the weakest out of all the Bioware/Black Isle games, although I still found it perfectly playable & enjoyable.

The thing to remember with many of these games is that in your first playthrough you will screw up your character build somewhat. That's ok, most likely you can still play the game fine. In fact the thing that bugs me is when you get into conversations with people who only powergame and ridicule you is you dare to experiment or have fun with a character. Because hey, if you don't know to go for a Sorceror (10) / Arcane Scholar (10) / Eldrith Knight (10) then obviously you are an idiot durhurhur.

EDIT: Shit, should have mentioned - the Mask of the Betrayer expansion for NWN 2 is the best RPG of the noughties and is well worth considering. Helps if you've played NWN 2 beforehand though, or at least some sort of D&D game.

Heliocentric

26-07-2012, 10:25 PM

NWN2 ran like ass on my pc, I need to reinstall it now i'm on win 7 (i was xp) and see if its got any better.

Gorzan

26-07-2012, 10:27 PM

I'm trying to get into Galactic Civilizations II but the tutorials are THE WORST. Anyone can point me to a better way of learning?.

Casimir Effect

26-07-2012, 10:43 PM

NWN2 ran like ass on my pc, I need to reinstall it now i'm on win 7 (i was xp) and see if its got any better.
How long ago was this? Honestly the game had like a thousand updates over the years. Every damn time I've tried to play it the thing seemed to update. It runs completely fine on my Win7 PC today, and really is a bit of a hidden gem, MotB especially. NWN 2 has some great moments but MotB is an almost non-stop stream of awesome.

Alastor

26-07-2012, 10:48 PM

Drake Sigar

26-07-2012, 11:31 PM

The RPS HTTP Error Text Adventure. I appear to have summoned a game's journalist, and now I'm trying to trap him in a pokeball maybe. Or something.

elephant god

26-07-2012, 11:55 PM

Today I played a bit (a lot) of Portal 2 co-op with a good friend. At some points we started each to get pissed at each other, but when anything worked it was the best experience I could imagine. And the slapstick potential when something went wrong sometimes on purpose. Incredibly organic and absolutely priceless! I love these robots, and I hope it goes on forever. Are there workshop levels for Co-op?

vinraith

27-07-2012, 12:03 AM

Heliocentric

27-07-2012, 12:05 AM

How the hell did I not think to suggest that?

Cos you are a bad man.

vinraith

27-07-2012, 12:14 AM

Cos you are a bad man.

Indeed.

On the up side, this conversation has reminded me that I should put Hordes of the Underdark on my "to play" list, and should make another run at TOEE as well.

Smashbox

27-07-2012, 12:19 AM

And with that, I think we've summed up every conversation with Wizardry ever.

Where did my favorite angry old bastard go, anyway?

Nalano

27-07-2012, 12:39 AM

Where did my favorite angry old bastard go, anyway?

I think he was eaten by a grue.

Sketch

27-07-2012, 01:30 AM

Speaking of missing people, where is Althea? Did I miss something?

alms

27-07-2012, 02:08 AM

My personal favorite theory is she got off the internet and became a hermit to avoid the summer sale.

vinraith

27-07-2012, 03:58 AM

Back to topic, giving Psychonauts a try. I suspect I'm done with platformers, honestly, but it seems like if I'm going to give the genre one last shot this is probably the game to try.

Playing some CoD: World at War with a friend that bought it for us. I've never played any game in the series before. It's highly scripted and highly linear, of course, but the set pieces aren't bad and the shooting feels reasonably good. Not something I'd have bought, but not as terrible as it's made out to be. Plus, it's short, so by the time I'm tired of it it'll be over.

Juan Carlo

27-07-2012, 05:12 AM

Back to topic, giving Psychonauts a try. I suspect I'm done with platformers, honestly, but it seems like if I'm going to give the genre one last shot this is probably the game to try.

It's strange, as I like 2D platformers (especially the puzzle ones like Braid or Trine, for example), but I really hate 3D platformers. They've always just played awkwardly to me and I've never gotten the hang of things like timed jumping in a 3D environment. Psychonauts had a good enough world and writing for me to stick with it, but I was never enamored with the gameplay.

vinraith

27-07-2012, 05:18 AM

It's strange, as I like 2D platformers (especially the puzzle ones like Braid or Trine, for example), but I really hate 3D platformers. They've always just played awkwardly to me and I've never gotten the hang of things like timed jumping in a 3D environment. Psychonauts had a good enough world and writing for me to stick with it, but I was never enamored with the gameplay.

Yeah, I'm finding it pretty awkward/annoying. I was never all that great at platformers, but I seem to have completely lost the necessary patience to play them in the last few years.

Wheelz

27-07-2012, 05:22 AM

finished Dear Esther. It's uh, weird. I didn't mind the story so much untill the [SPOLIERS] wtf am I a bird -moment[/SPOILERS] at which point it all just became nonsensical.
Think it took me just under 2 hours. I have to say on reflection the game was very pretty, and it crafted a desolate island so very well. I'm not sure I'll bother to play through it again, kinda felt like I've seen all there was, and I'm not interested in trying to decode the story.

After that, I've just started playing Warlock: Masters of the Arcane. It's my first Civ-like, as I've not played any of the civs or Rise of Nation games, and I must say, it is quite fun. As someone who loved playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 when they were younger, I can say that I think I prefer Warlock's take on the TBS genre. Stomping out your enemies just feels more satisfying. That said, I'm abit worried the game might not be as deep as I first thought, should still be enough there to keep me playing atleast 30 hours or so though.

Lukasz

27-07-2012, 05:30 AM

Thanks I will keep that in mind!

Don't get bg2 without playing bg1 first. thats insane suggestion. if you don't know the setting, the rules you will be pretty much fucked. furthermore you will lose on a big chunk of a storyline, won't be able to benefit from stuff learned in bg1... I would say anyone suggesting bg2 to new ADD player is talking out of its own ass. game must be played in order at least for the first time.

PST is a great way to get into add imo. yes. its a bit broken in terms of the rules but thats how it is helpful. it will teach you the basics, the rules without overwhelming you or being too difficult even if you fuck up (max your wisdom and you will be fine no matter how you build rest of your character or what you will do in the game)
it is story, character heavy game. very very heavy. combat is just an addition. therefore if you don't like wallks of text then you might not like the game.

so either BG1, NWN2 or Icewind dale 1.

if you choose bg1 you gotta get bg2 too so you can mod bg1 to run on bg2 engine... looks much better.

Voon

27-07-2012, 07:31 AM

Oh, my Fishery Worker died getting chewed on by a sea lamprey... in a stream. Which is freshwater... goddammit, Toady!

Drake Sigar

27-07-2012, 08:16 AM

Speaking of missing people, where is Althea? Did I miss something?

And Wulf too.

Well, we know what happened to him, but I thought he'd come back.

Someone is picking off prominent RPS members *paranoid*

Heliocentric

27-07-2012, 08:32 AM

Soon no-one will challenge my post count mw-hahaha mwaahaha-*gets black bag pulled over his head and dragged into a van*

ado

27-07-2012, 09:39 AM

So I finished Half-Life. I forgot what a pain in the ass the last boss was. Overall the experience was pretty damn awesome. The game is still engrossing and tense despite the age, and apart from a few segments that forced me to quicksave my way through them it's a showpiece of masterful design. But for me the main qualities of the game are it's power to transport you and give you this sense of urgency as shit hits the fan all around you.

Like I said in one of my previous posts, the game does still feel fresh because of it's more open ended design that lets you loose in these large areas that have many dead ends with goodies and which you oftentimes must traverse with some skillful jumps. The platforming is great because it actually feels dangerous, you're not controlling some douchebag with a hoodie that does everything for you. I mean in a modern game that has climbing and shit you don't get a sense of danger or vertigo one bit because you always have this invisible safety net under you, even if you're climbing a mile high tower. So HL provides an exploration element that I miss in modern FPS, which tend to be nothing more than a shooting gallery on a rail.

Apart from HL I also played through Dear Esther. While the ending was predictable and gave the game a pretentious streak that it absolutely did not need (the "prose" pushes that button quite far on it's own), I still found the overall experience very satisfying. The atmosphere is unique for a game in that it's very melancholy, and hauntingly so. The audio-visual presentation is great as well, there are little story related image systems and clues scattered all around the world and the design of that world is all steered for maximizing the viewing pleasure. There are parts of this game that are nothing short of jaw dropping.

Also, if anyone intends to play through this, have your bong at hand :P

khaz

27-07-2012, 09:51 AM

Gorzan

27-07-2012, 10:09 AM

After like 30 minutes played with a little guide I found on the internet I think I start to understand Galactic Civilizations 2. I think.

On other news I'm having fun with Just Cause 2 but I have some problems with it. Any time I ctrl+tab or open the steam overlay it changes it's resolution, wich is really annoying. I alsofind myself being fucked by it's forced autoaim sometimes, "NO! I'm not trying to shoot the car! I'm trying to shoot the guys whoi are shooting me back from it! that's the damned reason I have my cursor over them and not the car!". And last of all, and not as much a problem as an hilarius thing, it seems I can't buy a black market vehicle without making it explode about a minute later.

Casimir Effect

27-07-2012, 10:28 AM

Don't get bg2 without playing bg1 first. thats insane suggestion. if you don't know the setting, the rules you will be pretty much fucked. furthermore you will lose on a big chunk of a storyline, won't be able to benefit from stuff learned in bg1... I would say anyone suggesting bg2 to new ADD player is talking out of its own ass. game must be played in order at least for the first time.

PST is a great way to get into add imo. yes. its a bit broken in terms of the rules but thats how it is helpful. it will teach you the basics, the rules without overwhelming you or being too difficult even if you fuck up (max your wisdom and you will be fine no matter how you build rest of your character or what you will do in the game)
it is story, character heavy game. very very heavy. combat is just an addition. therefore if you don't like wallks of text then you might not like the game.

so either BG1, NWN2 or Icewind dale 1.

if you choose bg1 you gotta get bg2 too so you can mod bg1 to run on bg2 engine... looks much better.
There really isn't much story to get from BG1 and it's summed up pretty succintly at the start of BG2. The games are both set in entirely different places too, and the rules are basically the same - so if you don't know them in one you won't know them in the other, ie. doesn't matter which you start with.

I've known too many people put off entirely by BG1 to recommend it as the one to play. I myself was put off it all those years ago and only tried BG2 after being all but forced to by a friend. I enjoy it more now but initially BG1 is very unforgiving and often becomes a bit of a chore. So while it's not ideal to start with the second game it's what I recommend. Either that or, if you can buy both games, try BG1 first but if you get fed up with it then don't judge BG2 as being the same.

Thinking about it, Icewind Dale is probably the best place to start.

tjv

27-07-2012, 10:54 AM

Started Resonance yesterday. So far liking it, although had to use walkthrough already. The early wiring puzzle was quite bad. Just hoping there aren't many such. Maybe 10 years ago I would have used longer time to solve it, but simply don't have time for it. Generally puzzles seem to follow somewhat similar "realistic" logic as the Blackwell games, which is cool of course.
Been churning through all the Wadjet games in relatively short time recently. Only that Playfirst game left, which looks tad too casual for my taste.

Other than Resonance, still few stages left on Dirt 2. Also been enjoying quite lot a 360 indie game called Super Amazing Wagon Adventure. Funny Oregon Trail take.

Got N7 yesterday so checking out some anddroid games as well. Like Cardinal Quest, which seems to be tad easier on droid than on the PC. Not that the PC version is hard.

Nalano

27-07-2012, 11:47 AM

Someone is picking off prominent RPS members *paranoid*

I don't know what you're talking about. Nothing could possibly happen to

Drake Sigar

27-07-2012, 11:54 AM

Soon no-one will challenge my post count mw-hahaha mwaahaha-*gets black bag pulled over his head and dragged into a van*

I don't know what you're talking about. Nothing could possibly happen to
Oh please, you two were replaced by shapeshifting doppelgangers long ago.

Nalano

27-07-2012, 01:15 PM

Oh please, you two were replaced by shapeshifting doppelgangers long ago.

Shapeshifting?

Lukasz

27-07-2012, 01:48 PM

There really isn't much story to get from BG1 and it's summed up pretty succintly at the start of BG2. The games are both set in entirely different places too, and the rules are basically the same - so if you don't know them in one you won't know them in the other, ie. doesn't matter which you start with.

I've known too many people put off entirely by BG1 to recommend it as the one to play. I myself was put off it all those years ago and only tried BG2 after being all but forced to by a friend. I enjoy it more now but initially BG1 is very unforgiving and often becomes a bit of a chore. So while it's not ideal to start with the second game it's what I recommend. Either that or, if you can buy both games, try BG1 first but if you get fed up with it then don't judge BG2 as being the same.

Thinking about it, Icewind Dale is probably the best place to start.

i agree that bg1 is hard to get into. no argument here. but getting into bg2 for newbie to add is also going to be hard.

thats why i suggest pst as very very chill introduction to the rules. haven't played icewind dale so that might be good but i can't say.

Heliocentric

27-07-2012, 01:51 PM

Shapeshifting?

He's talking about me, it's a medical condition.

Drake Sigar

27-07-2012, 02:38 PM

I'm stuck.

>take amiga
You reach for the magazine, but as you touch it it disintegrates in front of your eyes. In its place are the feet of a man. That man is Kieron Gillen. He smiles down at you.

>talk kieron
I didn't understand that sentence.

>talk to kieron
You open your mouth but the words fail to come. Without speaking, Kieron's voice echoes inside of your head. He mentions something about Thief. Everything is right with the world.

>take kieron
I don't suppose Kieron would care for that.

>open kieron
He's not something you can open.

>absorb kieron's power
That's not a verb I recognise.

>ask kieron
What do you want to ask Kieron for?

>riches
You can't see any such thing.

>ask kieron
What do you want to ask Kieron for?

>bigger manhood
You can't see any such thing.

Fanbuoy

27-07-2012, 03:02 PM

Okay, technically I'm not really playing it yet, but I'm about to play Half-life (1) for the first time. Played HL2 and loved it though. My question to you is: what's the deal with Half-Life: Source? Is it just HL 1 in the Source engine? Do I miss out on anything by playing that one instead of the original?

Nalano

27-07-2012, 03:12 PM

\My question to you is: what's the deal with Half-Life: Source? Is it just HL 1 in the Source engine?\

Yes. 10char.

Fanbuoy

27-07-2012, 03:16 PM

Yes. 10char.

Ok, thanks

Juan Carlo

27-07-2012, 04:01 PM

Just finished Geneforge 5, which caps off my playthrough of the entire series which I started way back in November. It really is the best of the series and one of the best RPGs I've ever played. It definitely rivals any of the late 1990s, 2D, isometric, classics. In fact, it kind of amazes me how a game with this many branching paths dependent upon your actions can be designed by just one guy (there are 5 separate factions in this, each with their own fairly complex storylines and quests....and thus the possible routes you can take in the game depending on your actions seem to be every bit as complicated and varied as something like Alpha Protocol, Fallout 2, or New Vegas).

But, yeah, if you only play one Geneforge game it should probably be this one. I realize that the prospect of playing 5 30-60 hour games is a bit daunting, but they really are worth the effort in the long run. Although, if you want a condensed version of the series, I think you would do fine by starting with Geneforge 2 (which is really just the same game as Geneforge 1, more or less, only with more factions) then skipping to Geneforge 4 and Geneforge 5. That would get you all the highlights and save you some time.

vinraith

27-07-2012, 04:24 PM

fiddlesticks

27-07-2012, 05:23 PM

I'm stuck.
I think I know where you went wrong. Near the beginning of the game there is a boot you were supposed to collect. Throw it at the cat chasing the rat and said rat will later come to your aid. If you didn't do that, I'm afraid you made the game unwinnable. I hope you have an earlier savegame.

Juan Carlo

27-07-2012, 05:25 PM

30-60 hours is actually less lengthy than I'd been led to believe they were. You say Geneforge 2 is basically a redone Geneforge 1? Why is 3 skippable?

Out of curiosity, have you played the Avernum games?

Yeah. I even played them all on torment, so if you play on normal they will probably be even faster. Although, average time is probably 45ish.

G2 isn't really a redone G1 in that they have different story lines. It's just that G2 plays like G1, only with more stuff. G1 is a good introduction to the world, though, so you could probably play G1 and skip G2, or vice versa.

G3 is a personal favorite of mine, just because I think it's where the series gets interesting. The quality of writing and complexity of character and plot take a huge leap forward, and a lot of characters are introduced who stick around until the end of the series. So in that sense, I wouldn't say it's skippable. However, the gameplay isn't as good. It's very, very, linear, and there are only 2 factions to choose from, so there isn't as much freedom. This kind of makes for an interesting storyline (both factions are very flawed so you end up having to make some very morally grey decisions), but most people tend to see G3 as the worst in the series.

Really, though, if you have the time it's worth playing them all in order as they definitely lead into each other and you'll miss out on various nuances and references if you don't. Although, they don't get really plot heavy until G3. And really any single game is designed to be played by someone who is new to the series, so even though there is an over arching plot, you technically probably could start anywhere.

And yeah I've played most of the Avernums. I like them for what they are (some more than others), but I don't think they are anywhere near as good as Geneforge.

magnus1969

27-07-2012, 05:30 PM

Drawn:The Painted Tower, the best hidden object game I've ever played. (Rep -1 ?)

Heliocentric

27-07-2012, 06:00 PM

Drawn:The Painted Tower, the best hidden object game I've ever played. (Rep -1 ?)

Tried tiny bang story?

magnus1969

27-07-2012, 06:51 PM

Tried tiny bang story?

Yeah, Hard isn't it? Sometimes I really have to squnit to see anything there. I couldn't belive it last night, I did the map puzzle in about a minute, it's taken me at least 8 before!

alms

27-07-2012, 07:18 PM

Yeah. I even played them all on torment, so if you play on normal they will probably be even faster. Although, average time is probably 45ish.

Thanks for the posts, very interesting. What about the UI? is it clunky compared to Avadon?

Trelow

27-07-2012, 07:48 PM

Thanks for the posts, very interesting. What about the UI? is it clunky compared to Avadon?

In some ways its better, you can hit everything through keyboard shortcuts, and just hit tab to see what they are. In general it's not as refined, but it's more than passable.

Inventory in 1&2 isn't the greatest ever, fairly big change when you hit 3. No more encumbrance from inventory and it's no longer a list of items.

Alastor

27-07-2012, 08:10 PM

Any good Mods for Alpha Protocol ? This game is a MESS but I was hopping with mods that it will help since I love the characters...

vinraith

27-07-2012, 08:11 PM

Any good Mods for Alpha Protocol ? This game is a MESS but I was hopping with mods that it will help since I love the characters...

Man, that would have been nice. To my knowledge it's not modable.

@Juan Carlo

Thanks for the detailed breakdown. Am I remembering right that Avernum is party-based but Geneforge is single-character?

kstress71

27-07-2012, 08:15 PM

I just finished the "Move all my shit between residences" game, and it SUCKED. Thankfully, nobody died in the adventure (spoiler), although it was a 50/50 shot at one point.

Anyway, now that I have my gaming PC wired to my living room, I'm looking forward to finishing up Rage and Rayman Origins this weekend. Maybe jump into some Stalker SoC, since I've never played it before.

fiddlesticks

27-07-2012, 08:17 PM

Any good Mods for Alpha Protocol ? This game is a MESS but I was hopping with mods that it will help since I love the characters...
There are no mods to my knowledge, but you can change some settings in the .ini files which make the overall experience a bit smoother. I'll just quote myself from this thread (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/forums/showthread.php?5376-Alpha-Protocol-stat-point-allocation).

And before I forget it, there are some useful .ini tweaks that can be found here (http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/55422-modding-alpha-protocol/), which make the overall experience a lot smoother. Of particular note are these changes:

InteractDistance=250
CoverWalkSpeed=75.f
CoverRunSpeed=125.f
PlayerRotationSpeed=80000.0f
MoveSpeedNormal=220
MoveSpeedScoped=80
SprintSpeed=350

They slow you down somewhat, but they also improve Mike's animations and make the game feel a lot less jittery. I couldn't imagine playing without them.

Edit: Silly me. I forgot to mention those changes go into your APGame.ini (Documents\Alpha Protocol\APGame\Config).

Drake Sigar

27-07-2012, 08:53 PM

Finished LA Noir. Odd final chapter. Suddenly I get two main characters, and timezones are jumping back and forth. The ending was a bit of a suckfest too, I actually thought I'd did something wrong and searched around the Internet to see if there was a separate ending for failure, but nope, apparently it's supposed to go down that way.

Slow beginning, enthralling middle, kinda trails off at the end there. Story of my life.

Giaddon

27-07-2012, 09:14 PM

Huh, I had the opposite experience with L.A. Noire. I didn't start enjoying the story until 19 hours in and was riveted for the last six.

Anyway, I just beat Analogue: A Hate Story. It was good! I'm going to need to replay it a few times to unlock more log files and try different things with the AIs.

Also working my way through Quantum Conundrum, which remains fabulous.

Sketch

28-07-2012, 01:09 AM

I much preferred LA Noire when it was just solving reasonably everyday crimes, once it became a more twisted narrative, it started to lose quality.

Mindwedge

28-07-2012, 01:24 AM

Monster Minis Extreme Off-Road

Similar

28-07-2012, 01:53 AM

Just Cause 2. pew pew boom... Shame about the save system. And every time I start the game, the parachute I bought has disappeared (I think it's the one from one of the free DLCs. Not sure if it's any different than the default one, except for the texture).

Also tried Serious Sam 2, but it feels wrong somehow. Not sure if it's the FOV (which can't be adjusted as far as I can tell) or the movement or what, but something is off. Terrible intro too.

Oshada

28-07-2012, 09:53 AM

Homicide was my favourite section in LA Noire, Vice wasn't too far behind. Arson (and ending) were a bit underwhelming.

Drake Sigar

28-07-2012, 10:53 AM

Homicide was my favourite section in LA Noire, Vice wasn't too far behind. Arson (and ending) were a bit underwhelming.
Pretty much my feelings. Homicide really captured the frustration of a case, with you being pressured by your superiors and your superiors being pressured by the media to pin the blame on someone. The psychopath is intelligent and egotistical, he felt like a huge nemesis solely on the basis of subverting Cole's professional pride instead of harming him.

Cole's heel turn in vice on the other hand, didn't make much sense to me. A chunk of the explanation seemed to be missing. There is one scene where he's about to bare his soul and quickly gets cut off. That's where it started to go downhill. Biggs was a perfectly fine partner and loyal to the end, we didn't need to swap main characters and go solo.

jnx

28-07-2012, 11:44 AM

Wow someone actually liked homicide? Would not have anticipated that. It made me hate myself for wasting my time on the game.

LTK

28-07-2012, 12:07 PM

Just Cause 2. pew pew boom... Shame about the save system. And every time I start the game, the parachute I bought has disappeared (I think it's the one from one of the free DLCs. Not sure if it's any different than the default one, except for the texture).

Install this mod (http://justcause2mods.com/mods/other/Parachute/Chaos-Parachute-as-default/) to enable the Chaos Parachute as default. And while you're there, also get the Black Market mod (http://justcause2mods.com/mods/other/Black-Market/Everything-Unlocked--and--Available-Though-the-Black-Market/) and any other mods you may enjoy. Good luck!

Similar

28-07-2012, 12:25 PM

Install this mod (http://justcause2mods.com/mods/other/Parachute/Chaos-Parachute-as-default/) to enable the Chaos Parachute as default. And while you're there, also get the Black Market mod (http://justcause2mods.com/mods/other/Black-Market/Everything-Unlocked--and--Available-Though-the-Black-Market/) and any other mods you may enjoy. Good luck!
ah, thanks. It does seem like a bug that it reverts to the default.

I found that site last night and got the two mods that should make it possible to get 100% completion, so I've apparently hit the download limit for the day, but I'll get the parachute one later.

SirKicksalot

28-07-2012, 01:36 PM

Drake Sigar

28-07-2012, 03:08 PM

Driver: San Fran really does a number on my eyes, and has given me a headache - a common problem amongst driving games.

Tritagonist

28-07-2012, 03:19 PM

Might and Magic: Heroes VI. Pretty good fun so far, although I've yet to really find out how each statistic affects combat. It looks nice, in any case, and I'm starting to get an idea of who does what etc.

Sadly, 45 minutes into the tutorial mission, I lost a very close battle and my hero was killed. Rather than being able to resurrect (this is a tutorial, after all), the game informs me that the hero is dead, I cannot resurrect him (but will later in the game!) and boots me back to the main menu. I look for an auto-save, and discover that it conveniently saved after my defeat. Ugh!

Also ran around The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim a bit, after installing some mods. I think I'll have to start a new game to really get the most out of it, as my only level 5+ character really already has everything I would want her to have, and has also exhausted most of the quests. Still, what a fantastic looking game world!

Ravelle

28-07-2012, 03:40 PM

Halo 3. Nice game, cut from the same cloth as Far Cry and Crysis, but the grunt voices are killing me. They were perfect in the original, then H2 went full retard with aliens speaking English. They're more annoying than ever in Halo 3.

The grenades are so good!

I'm planning on getting a 360 plus the new Halo in November/December if everything goes according to plan, having played Halo only at friends' places but am a big fan of the Co-op campaign and it's multiplayer.

Anyways since I completed Max Payne 3 I was in the mood for a somewhat more relaxing game and started on Prince of Persia 2008.

Gorzan

28-07-2012, 04:19 PM

I don't seem to be able to play Just Cause 2 for periods as long as other sandbox, but I'm having fun with it anyway.
Since I don't seem to be getting the hang of Galciv II yet I've decided to try Civ IV. Having never played games of this kind, Civ's tutorial compared to Galciv's horrible video-tutorials and the fact that it seems simpler are making it easier for me to play it. I guess it'll help me to eventually play Galciv II properly.

Tres

28-07-2012, 07:08 PM

Tried to get into Heroes VI. I don't get why did they turn away from 2D graphics, it had a lot more of artistic value and consistent style, now it's just horrible, glowing models. And ohgodwhy bullet-time-wannabe closeups on whats supposed to be, spectacular attacks or crits.

Bargh. Where are my Heroes III discs.

Similar

28-07-2012, 07:13 PM

hm. Just Cause 2 just turned not-very-fun. The difficulty suddenly spiked since I left it last night, so I can't do anything without getting an army of soldiers and at least one helicopter after me. This is on Casual and I haven't even done much yet. 7% completion, but very little of that has been plot or faction related. I've mostly just cleared villages.

I do remember this from the first time I played the game, but I had played a lot longer when it happened and it was much more gradual. Not sure I even played on Casual then either.

postinternetsyndrome

28-07-2012, 07:46 PM

Yeah, especially the military bases turn ugly quite fast. A few tips for loosing heat:

- Diving deep underwater and staying for a while. The oxygen lasts like, forever, so just make sure to get back up before you die and the cops will probably have given up.
- Travel into the jungle. Many enemies don't really follow you there since they have ordinary cars. Helicopters are another bean of course...
- Hijack a chopper, kill all other choppers nearby and fly away. Only other choppers will be able to chase you, and hopefully they won't turn up right away. Though they sometimes do.

It's a bit of a pain to be true. The way I made this game last for me was listening to podcasts when doing the grindy bits.

Heliocentric

28-07-2012, 07:51 PM

hm. Just Cause 2 just turned not-very-fun. The difficulty suddenly spiked since I left it last night, so I can't do anything without getting an army of soldiers and at least one helicopter after me.

From the wiki (http://justcause.wikia.com/wiki/Just_Cause_2_General_Gameplay_Tips#Completing_miss ions_and_settlements)

Completing missions and settlementsEdit
Try to resist completing missions early in the game, as this will unlock higher levels of heat before you get a chance to upgrade your health and weapons. However, you can travel between settlemts simply collecting armor, weapon and vehicle crates, which draws less military attention than attacking Sabotage Destructible Objects. Remember to keep your distance from military personnel and bases until you're strong or skilled enough to take them on!
Many people likes do in the opposite way on restricted locations, especially at those filled with destructibles. Though it's recommened to collect all the items before starting to add too much on your Heat level, and encountering Military air support with either attack helicopters or infantry drop support.

coldvvvave

28-07-2012, 08:03 PM

KOTOR2

Again. I had abandoned my first run because I lost interest and didn't have much time to play it anyway. Now with the latest community restoration mod, maybe I'll finish it. Maybe. Peragus Mining Facility is one of the worst starting areas ever, and the Ebon Hawk tutorial too, but at least it's skippable. Irenicus Dungeon has nothing on this. It's a grey dull long level that drags on and on as you kill countless easy droids. It's just so bad and there are bugs too. Sometimes I can't move after battle is over. Sometimes dialogues are skipped for no reason. Quick load fixes both issues but it's still frustrating even though it's fast. To make it worse, I remember Talos wasn't much better than Peragus Mining Complex. Last time this game wasn't any fun until Nar Shadaa. And it was all in the dialogues.

Drake Sigar

28-07-2012, 08:55 PM

I think they were trying to pull a System Shock, but yeah, that starting level went wrong.

Driver San Fran - body jumping into an oncoming bus is hilarious. And I love how Tanner just accepts his power because dream logic. This game is pure fun.

arathain

28-07-2012, 09:09 PM

Huh. A digital version of KOTOR 2 is surprisingly tricky to get a hold of.

I coming up to the end of Serious Sam:TFE, and it's getting properly tricky. I'm stepping out of a portal returning to a huge arena with an ankh shaped pool, and getting set upon by harpies while being fired on from afar by the scorpion chaps and the green fireball lobbing chaps. If I head towards health lava chaps tend to spawn. The more types of baddie there are in a fight the harder it gets, by quite a lot.

Voon

28-07-2012, 09:31 PM

>Store item in stockpile
>Store item in stockpile
>Store item in stockpile
>Store item in stockpile
>Store item in stockpile
>Store item in stockpile
>Store item in stockpi-

STOP STORING THOSE FUCKING ROCKS IN THE STOCKPILE, GODDAMMIT! Ah, just one of the things that are a pain to deal with when dwarves don't know their priority. I need them to dig out more rooms and make some crafts and brew some drinks before they get all cranky, first but noooooooo

Patrick Swayze

28-07-2012, 09:44 PM

To the moon.

;_________;

Gorzan

28-07-2012, 10:09 PM

STOP STORING THOSE FUCKING ROCKS IN THE STOCKPILE, GODDAMMIT! Ah, just one of the things that are a pain to deal with when dwarves don't know their priority. I need them to dig out more rooms and make some crafts and brew some drinks before they get all cranky, first but noooooooo
You should remove all hauling from your miners and brewers, then. You are using Dwarf Therapist, right?

LTK

28-07-2012, 10:52 PM

I don't want to spam this thread with Youtube videos of Just Cause 2, but someone did manage a successful mid-air grab of a plane. Though considering his failure rate, I'd assume that this wasn't really intented to be possible.
Aw hell yeah! I succeeded in the mid-air planegrab with a Mullen Skeeter Eagle heli and a Pell Silverbolt jet. It only took me a couple of tries! I hooked the grapple to the nose and swung it back and forth a couple of times. When I exited the heli, I had a view of the bottom of the jet, falling nose-down, and was able to grapple onto it from there. That was awesome.

Kadayi

28-07-2012, 11:12 PM

ado

28-07-2012, 11:13 PM

Had a quick run through Bastion, was a cool little game but I don't really see what the fuss is about. The art is ok, the music is great, and the narrator gimmick is a cool... well, gimmick. The gameplay however left much to be desired.

Started poking around in Orcs Must Die! while I figure out what to scratch of my backlog next.

Giaddon

28-07-2012, 11:39 PM

Just finished Quantum Conundrum. Really enjoyed it. Yes, you have to jump, but I like jumping. Awesome game.

fiddlesticks

28-07-2012, 11:44 PM

Aw hell yeah! I succeeded in the mid-air planegrab with a Mullen Skeeter Eagle heli and a Pell Silverbolt jet. It only took me a couple of tries! I hooked the grapple to the nose and swung it back and forth a couple of times. When I exited the heli, I had a view of the bottom of the jet, falling nose-down, and was able to grapple onto it from there. That was awesome.
That sounds amazing. Please tell me you made a video of it.

Huh. A digital version of KOTOR 2 is surprisingly tricky to get a hold of.
As far as I know Kotor 2 has never been released on any digital distribution platform. At this point it seems LucasArts would rather pretend the game never existed in the first place. If you really want it, your best bet is probably buying a physical copy from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Knights-Old-Republic-Pc/dp/B00027CXEM).

Casimir Effect

29-07-2012, 12:42 AM

Finished. Fucking finished. Empire: Total War is done. Over 100 hours and the British rule the known world.
Every. Damn. Province.

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/1508/2012072800025.jpg

Great game. Excellent game. Let down only by a bit of a steep learning curve and some annoying bugs. Finishing the game has required a 7 hour non-stop session where saving/loading was not an option - savegames could not be relied on to work for some reason. But it was damn fun, and I let the turn counter tick over to 1799 just to get the proper victory screen.

Unit of the game: 24lb Howitzers. I'll miss that sound.

torgen

29-07-2012, 01:14 AM

Glad to hear something good about Empire:TW, as I bought it last year and have yet to play it.

Playing Stalker: SoC for the first time, using the Complete 2009 mod. Just pre-ordered Borderlands 2, and have Torchlight 2 pre-ordered (the first times I have pre-ordered a game since Everquest.) With all the bought-but-untouched games in my Steam library, the only game I see myself buying for the rest of the year is the new X-Com.

Sketch

29-07-2012, 01:24 AM

Playing the original Age of Empires, and it's still good, the only AoE game I really played. Can someone tell me, is the AI better in 2, because having your soldiers stand literally a couple of squares away from an enemy who's attacking your base and not fighting him is incredibly frustrating.

vinraith

29-07-2012, 01:36 AM

Finally have a new game of Fallout: New Vegas going with an appropriate mod suite. Here's hoping I don't run into stability problems this time, and can actually push through to the end.

Still playing a bit of CoD: World at War in co-op, still not as bad as its made out to be. Short, though, and hideously overpriced. Then again, I'm not the one that bought it for us, so I suppose that doesn't matter.

Also trying out the Path of Exile beta weekend. I'm surprised at how solid the core design is, for an F2P game. Not clear on how this is going to be monetized, but as a Diablo/TQ-type game it's certainly got a solid foundation.

Voon

29-07-2012, 01:45 AM

You should remove all hauling from your miners and brewers, then. You are using Dwarf Therapist, right?

No. But I heard LNP had that one. How do I use it again?

Skalpadda

29-07-2012, 02:01 AM

Had a bit of a storm turn up out of nowhere today with massive rainfall thundering down, so I opened a window to let the wonderful sound in and took a walk through the caves in Dear Esther. It was a nice moment.

SirKicksalot

29-07-2012, 02:41 AM

Prince of Persia 2008 always puts a smile on my face.
Whoever said this game doesn't punish players never made it past the first couple of areas. When you have to repeat a minute-long platforming sequence, it feels pretty damn punishing. Yet not annoying, because the gravity defying stunts are hypnotising.
As far as I'm concerned this game is a masterpiece.

internetonsetadd

29-07-2012, 04:33 AM

Played Sanctum the last several nights. About to load up Shogun 2. I'm hell damn fart excited.

Lukasz

29-07-2012, 06:39 AM

As far as I know Kotor 2 has never been released on any digital distribution platform. At this point it seems LucasArts would rather pretend the game never existed in the first place. If you really want it, your best bet is probably buying a physical copy from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Knights-Old-Republic-Pc/dp/B00027CXEM).
from business standpoint it makes no sense as KOTOR2 sales won't chip on sales of any other games but would bring revenue and would promote TOR.

so i presume the great Lucas is involved because he is such a whiny bitch about his precious Star Wars.

anyhow.
Still playing Baldurs Gate Trilogy. Just got to the BG and i've helped robbed a house, agreed to steal a telescope, agreed to steal methods of producing blimps as well as rob another place.

the fuck?
really dont' like that. i know i don't need to agree but that would feel like i am missing out on experience and game. My party and I, are the champions of good and now are involved with petty thievery? really breaks the immersion.

Heliocentric

29-07-2012, 07:33 AM

So if mass effect 3 gave you exp for going into a space kitten orphanage and choking the kittens gave more exp than shooting it would be the games fault you choked 2 dozen kittens?

And in the game.

Lukasz

29-07-2012, 07:48 AM

So if mass effect 3 gave you exp for going into a space kitten orphanage and choking the kittens gave more exp than shooting it would be the games fault you choked 2 dozen kittens?

And in the game.
Baldurs throw the quests at you. without providing an alternative. imo...
you finally get to Baldurs Gate. after questing through cloakwood which was 4 hour minimum epic adventure where you battle an army, dragons (okay wyvrens), ogres and most powerful mages, then you find out that you are asked to rob a house. really? it being one of the quests in baldurs, something small you always do on the side during epic adventures... i might be okay with it but it is one of the first thing you encounter. It breaks the flow as this time it does not feel like something you just do in your way to figuring out whats going on with Iron Throne but feels like a necessary step in the storyline.
meh. gonna kill them all anyway so no biggie. hate thieves.

does mass effect 3 do something similar since you mention it?

Nalano

29-07-2012, 07:57 AM

Anthile

29-07-2012, 08:11 AM

Oh come on now, all the good heroes of legend indulged in petty thievery. All the way back from when Prometheus stole fire from the other gods.

Prince of Persia 2008 always puts a smile on my face.
Whoever said this game doesn't punish players never made it past the first couple of areas. When you have to repeat a minute-long platforming sequence, it feels pretty damn punishing. Yet not annoying, because the gravity defying stunts are hypnotising.
As far as I'm concerned this game is a masterpiece.

Curiously enough, I'm playing that as well. It's fun but I really can't play it for more than an hour without getting bored. It seriously lacks some variety.

Juan Carlo

29-07-2012, 08:18 AM

Been playing the original Thief which I got in the steam sale. It was going good, but then I got to the boneyard. Now I'm lost and there are zombies everywhere. It's like someone accidentally inserted a Quake level into my stealth thievery game.

Gorzan

29-07-2012, 09:44 AM

No. But I heard LNP had that one. How do I use it again?
Oh, it's really easy. Its a big grid, on the right you have your dwarves and on the top you have all of the jobs, it tells you what your dwarves are good at and to tell them to start or stop doing some job you just click on the boxes and hit apply changes (it might not be called like this, it's been months since I hit dwarf fortress). It also includes various ways to sort your dwarves, wich can be very useful.
Pick it up (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/images/10/sept/onion3/therapist.jpg), and soon you'll be wondering how you could play without it.

LTK

29-07-2012, 10:10 AM

That sounds amazing. Please tell me you made a video of it.
Alas, I did not. I might be able to splice one together with the 30-second clips Fraps allows me to make, but I don't know of any other video recording solutions.

Similar

29-07-2012, 10:18 AM

Alas, I did not. I might be able to splice one together with the 30-second clips Fraps allows me to make, but I don't know of any other video recording solutions.
I've seen MSI Afterburner, WeGame and XFire recommended in various places, but haven't tried any of them. I believe they're all free, though.
Of the non-free, Dxtory is apparently rather good, but also rather expensive.

Ravelle

29-07-2012, 11:49 AM

Just finished Max Payne 3

Stunning looking game with a decent vibe to it. The combat model is pretty impressive (shooting from prone is particularly well done), but does require a bit of getting used to. I recommend doing a chapter or two dry run initially so you get used to using the bullet time mechanic and when to instigate it. Story doesn't really contain a huge amount of surprises to be honest, though the signposting isn't as egregious as in GTA IV, and overall the writing is as hard boiled as one would expect from a Max Payne game.

The game suffers from a couple of difficulty spikes in places, and the body count does get a tad ridiculous at times (New York could've done with a lot less targets overall I feel), however it is an action shooter so overboard numbers are to be expected. I’ve not played the MP so I can’t comment on that however if you’re looking for something shooty and stylish to keep you occupied, I’d give a firm thumbs up.

Interested to see given the great detail put into the combat mechanics of MP3 whether Rockstar will incorporate any of it into GTA V. Obviously the natures of the game (linear shooter Vs open world) are distinct, but if they bring across the movement model and cover mechanics (if not the bullet time) then it's all for the good.

My only nitpick about this game is the cover system and the checkpoint annoyance, Max didn't always stick to the right side of an object because there was no indication to where he was going to stick to, Splinter Cell conviction did this the right way. And like you said there are points where it gets strangely difficult for a brief moment; dying isn't so bad because the game loads instantly but because of the weird checkpoint system it usually loads the cutscene or dialogue as well which got really tiresome.

Most of my dying was because I was out of bullets or pain killers a lot.

LTK

29-07-2012, 12:48 PM

LTK discovers games using Direct3D cannot be played over remote desktop connection. LTK sad. LTK plays Spacechem instead.

airtekh

29-07-2012, 01:31 PM

I finished Space Marine. Quite enjoyable, even if there were a few annoying checkpoints. The jump pack sections were awesome though; they should have some DLC entitled 'Additional Jump Pack Levels', I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Started Tiny & Big: Grandpa's Leftovers. Slicing a building in half and watching it collapse spectacularly has never been more fun.

Been playing the original Thief which I got in the steam sale. It was going good, but then I got to the boneyard. Now I'm lost and there are zombies everywhere. It's like someone accidentally inserted a Quake level into my stealth thievery game.

Stick with it. This was one of the issues people had with Thief 1 that was largely addressed in Thief 2.

Conserve your holy water so that you can use it to destroy as big a group of zombies as you can. Same goes for mines and flash bombs. One good tactic is to lure a bunch of them into following you and then take them all out at once.

neema_t

29-07-2012, 02:19 PM

I've picked up Just Cause 2 again, and guess what? There's a Just Cause 2 Multiplayer beta test today! It's absolutely fucking hilarious, for a while, but then you realise you're playing a shooter where you can't shoot people unless you find a jet, tank, chopper, car or boat with weapons on it and there's no persistence whatsoever so there's not really a whole lot to do. Still, tying your car to someone else's while you're both shitting it along a road then driving off the next bridge is pretty damn funny.

PeteC

29-07-2012, 05:05 PM

Out of all the games I bought in the Steam sale - some big hitting triple AAA's among them - the only one I've played is Bookworm Adventures Deluxe :D

Just completed it. Best words were Threatened, Planetary and Marketeer. Ooh yeah.

Gorzan

29-07-2012, 06:21 PM

I'm starting to get somewhat bored of Just Cause 2, most missions just don't feel like something worth doing, I give it some extra time, though.

The JG Man

29-07-2012, 07:53 PM

Serious Sam: Second Encounter continues to give me secrets to find, enemies to kill and more of them to kill me. I don't know if it's harder than FE, but it's certainly incredibly challenging at points. I caught myself earlier saying "This is impossible!" Twice. Granted, that was the same section. That being said, I certainly feel it's the better of the two. Not just the changing environments, but the level design is far-and-away better. The arenas are still absurdly obvious, but the rest of the time it's well done.

Anyhow, I feel like I'm on the penultimate level and am currently killing a ridiculously sized horde of kamikazes...while a rock version of Jingle Bells plays. I like that in SE, they just went insane with pretty much everything.

Tritagonist

29-07-2012, 09:43 PM

Played a bit of Skyrim this evening. Noticed a sudden 15+ FPS drop compared to when I was playing last month. So I set out to isolate the cause, but ended up disabling all mods and ini tweaks without any noticeable change! I'll have to spend some time later this week mucking about with drivers and benchmarking to find out what's going on; the downsides of PC gaming, I guess.

Also had some more fun in Cargo! The Quest for Gravity, though the limitations of the setting and mechanics are a bit too obvious at this point. I think I'm nearing the end of the main campaign as it just turned summer and I think the game started in autumn. Anyway, it's a nice game for the €2,50 or so it cost during the Steam sale.

fiddlesticks

29-07-2012, 09:56 PM

from business standpoint it makes no sense as KOTOR2 sales won't chip on sales of any other games but would bring revenue and would promote TOR.

so i presume the great Lucas is involved because he is such a whiny bitch about his precious Star Wars.
There is the theory that Lucas really hates KotoR 2 because it deconstructs many of the pivotal aspects of the Star Wars universe, but personally I doubt it. Even if Lucas knows about the game, his love for money probably trumps his love for Star Wars.

Most likely, LucasArts doesn't want to release the game because they fear it could damage their reputation due to being buggy and unfinished. Which is ironic, considering they're responsible for its buggy and unfinished state in the first place.

Nalano

29-07-2012, 10:23 PM

There is the theory that Lucas really hates KotoR 2 because it deconstructs many of the pivotal aspects of the Star Wars universe, but personally I doubt it. Even if Lucas knows about the game, his love for money probably trumps his love for Star Wars.

Assuming he has love for Star Wars. It hasn't exactly gone unnoticed that the best Star Wars movie was the one he didn't direct.

Gorzan

29-07-2012, 11:16 PM

I hadn't replayed Mirror's Edge ever since its release, I still suck at it, but I have fun anyway.

magnus1969

29-07-2012, 11:38 PM

I'm starting to get somewhat bored of Just Cause 2, most missions just don't feel like something worth doing, I give it some extra time, though.

It's worth sticking with for the last Agency mission.

The JG Man

29-07-2012, 11:59 PM

Serious Sam: Second Encounter - completed. Phew, what a bloody hard game. I want to say it was harder than the first one throughout, but was also better with a bit more creativity thrown in there. If I had to level any complaint against it, and I feel I do in this case, the final level isn't as good. It's drawn-out, the penultimate fight goes on too long and the final boss lacks any sort of dread. Now, the final boss in FE wasn't the hardest thing in the world, however when you first came upon it, if you didn't utter at least one "Holy shit" then you weren't looking the right way. Here, it was a case of "Okay, shoot gun at dude, avoid laser ball things. Done." It lacked the scale.

The preceding fight wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for the fact that you'd already gone through quite an overly long slog anyhow, before doing another long-lasting fight that lacked the escalated feel of the penultimate fight in FE. It was just more waves of mixed units being thrown at you at the end, but because I was juggling a minigun and a fire-power special bonus for half of the time, it was more point and click with that than any sort of prioritised strategy.

It is, however, a slight against a game that was otherwise excellent. I now feel properly fuelled to go and play SS3, although I may take a break first to play something slightly more relaxing in the mean time.

Anthile

30-07-2012, 12:01 AM

I vaguely remember having read about how Lucas has to put his stamp of approval on stuff in order for it to become canon. KotoR2 is canon and if Lucas really didn't like it he could have just said no.
I guess the truth is that LucasArts is simply the absolute worst publisher in existence.

Gorzan

30-07-2012, 12:25 AM

It's worth sticking with for the last Agency mission.
But it takes so looooooong to unlock agency missions...

Sketch

30-07-2012, 12:26 AM

LTK

30-07-2012, 12:39 AM

But it takes so looooooong to unlock agency missions...
It didn't take that long, in my experience. If you're running low on chaos, I'd suggest picking up an attack helicopter and bring death from above in a bunch of military bases. If SAMs are giving you trouble with that and you can't destroy them in time, find a Razorback APC somewhere, that will do the job just fine. It's a lot slower, but also much more durable than a chopper. If naval warfare is more your thing, buy a Powerrun speedboat and maybe shoot up some oil rigs. The possibilities are endless!

Similar

30-07-2012, 12:50 AM

But it takes so looooooong to unlock agency missions...
Maybe you've already been there, but if not, you should look out for a certain Ular Boys mission. It's been quite a while since I played it, but I believe it's about one of their planes that has gone missing or crashed on an island, so you have to go there.
... It's the one called 'Stranded' (you need to do the 'Pilgrimage' mission to get it, but that's one of the first missions you get).

It's a pretty surprising mission, so you may enjoy it.

Tritagonist

30-07-2012, 05:11 AM

Played a bit of Skyrim this evening. Noticed a sudden 15+ FPS drop compared to when I was playing last month. So I set out to isolate the cause, but ended up disabling all mods and ini tweaks without any noticeable change! I'll have to spend some time later this week mucking about with drivers and benchmarking to find out what's going on; the downsides of PC gaming, I guess.
Quick update in case somebody else has or will run into the same issue; a simple ATI driver update, and everything is back to normal. Better, even. The wonders of technology.

magnus1969

30-07-2012, 05:17 AM

But it takes so looooooong to unlock agency missions...

I know, I did all the faction missions too!

magnus1969

30-07-2012, 05:18 AM

Maybe you've already been there, but if not, you should look out for a certain Ular Boys mission. It's been quite a while since I played it, but I believe it's about one of their planes that has gone missing or crashed on an island, so you have to go there.
... It's the one called 'Stranded' (you need to do the 'Pilgrimage' mission to get it, but that's one of the first missions you get).

It's a pretty surprising mission, so you may enjoy it.

Now that is a cool mission!

Velko

30-07-2012, 05:20 AM

agentorange

30-07-2012, 07:25 AM

Finished Grimrock. The ending kind of made a dent in my enjoyment of the game, but still an interesting experience.

I attempted to replay KotOR 1 before replaying KotOR 2 with the restoration mod, but I just can't. Everything about it is worse in comparison with the sequel; the dialogue is so juvenile and all the clichéd characters and plot points just keep piling up. Think I can safely just move on with KotOR 2.

Gorzan

30-07-2012, 09:36 AM

Drake Sigar

30-07-2012, 09:42 AM

I attempted to replay KotOR 1 before replaying KotOR 2 with the restoration mod, but I just can't. Everything about it is worse in comparison with the sequel; the dialogue is so juvenile and all the clichéd characters and plot points just keep piling up. Think I can safely just move on with KotOR 2.
*Highfives* Too true.

Voon

30-07-2012, 09:58 AM

Today, I have learned and discovered two new things in Dwarf Fortress. Setting the "Ignore Minerals" order and slaughtering the odd Water Buffalo. Those dwarves were so hungry, they ate him raw

Gorzan

30-07-2012, 10:45 AM

Have you tried Dwarf Therapist yet?

Sketch

30-07-2012, 11:43 AM

*Highfives* Too true.

Well I'm really enjoying 1, but I've never played 2 so I'm in for a treat I suppose.

Voon

30-07-2012, 12:14 PM

Have you tried Dwarf Therapist yet?

Well, this is my Fort on a Mac, so I don't know if DT is available there

Oshada

30-07-2012, 12:22 PM

Quick update in case somebody else has or will run into the same issue; a simple ATI driver update, and everything is back to normal. Better, even. The wonders of technology.

Skyrim's quite temperamental with AMD graphics, at least from my experience. I've variously had simple borderless window with borders, random graphics glitches, and atrocious slowdown. All fixed with a driver update (or a rollback!). Very very weird.

Gorzan

30-07-2012, 12:32 PM

Well, this is my Fort on a Mac, so I don't know if DT is available there
Yes, here it is (http://dwarftherapist.googlecode.com/files/DwarfTherapist-0.6.12b05.dmg).

Tikey

30-07-2012, 01:19 PM

I've finished kotor 2 with the restoration mod.
I cheated a bit as I continued from a save of the previous version of the mod (It was bugged and couldn't continue before)
I love that game so much, but even with the restored stuff the ending doesn't feel complete yet.
It's an improvement in many places, in others you can see stuff that was cut to improve the writing (spoiler: It's best when the game doesn't outright tell you that Mandalore is Canderous for example).
Regardless the mod is an amazing work and it deserves at least one playthrough.

sonson

30-07-2012, 02:13 PM

Just started Bioshock, missed it the first time round, was a wee bit scared to play it back then to tell the truth.

I didn’t avoid the spoilers and discussion around it though, given that I always thought I’d be too chicken to actually play it, so it’s not like I’m playing it fresh. I know the big plot reveal and everything. That said, I don’t know when it occurs, and likewise most of the game itself is unknown to me, I’m not sure what to expect around each corner, so the context isn’t spoiling my enjoyment or the unravelling of the narrative.

Have to say I’m quite enjoying it, also finding it harder than I expected.
I can already tell though, having moved onto the Fisheries from the Medical Wing, that it’s going to sacrifice it’s strength-narrative and survival horror elements-for the amping up of more ‘gamey’ elements like crazy guns, powers, and vending machines that heal you, and that seems a shame.

The Medical Wing did a really good job of typing up the narrative into immersive elements which were aided by the mechanics. The Cassete decks, whilst a bit contrived, were great for plot exposition, and mirrored my progress perfectly, becoming increasingly deranged, dangerous and unpleasant as I advanced deeper into the complex. I would find a corner to hide and listen to them, away from the muttered threats and insane soliloquies of various Splicers. If I wasn’t prepared for a Splicer attack it was a bloody, confusing and messy affair, and one which would usually leave me having to quickly restore my health afterward. The guns could have been more satisfying to shoot but they were appropriately powerful and ammo was suitably distributed. The plasmids felt a little off to be honest but they did their job. By the end of the level and after a genuinely nasty boss reveal my progress felt plausible without compromising the carefully established vulnerability of my character. I was really enjoying myself and felt very involved.

Then Atlas tells me to have a go at a Big Daddy, to get some ADAM. Having seen what they can do I decline this and decide to press on and take my chances, assuming that other more opportune and less forced chances to get ADAM will occur. Just before I get in the Bathysphere though a little notice pops up which basically tells me that I’ve left a Little Sister behind and that I won’t get very far without their ADAM, and all that atmosphere was lost. “You haven’t collected enough rings for an extra life Sonic, go back and get some more”. So I go back and fight the Big Daddy, it’s a hard fight and not without it’s excitement but such a conflict should have been framed so much better.

The combat has ramped up in the Fisheries, and I was initially excited about playing about with some Plasmid combos, but because the Splicers do a lot of damage and there’s lots of them you have to use the health vendors an awful lot which sort of squares the circle and makes you invincible, removing a lot of the challenge and most of the survival horror elements in one stroke.

As I said, I’m still enjoying it, very much looking forward to playing it late. The ideas, ambition and visual design are excellent and richer than many full games. But it feels increasingly more like a game where I’m searching for the narrative while distractedly playing a good shooter rather than it being the encompassing narrative experience it was in the first hour.

agentorange

30-07-2012, 02:52 PM

I've finished kotor 2 with the restoration mod.

Were you able to use the widescreen patch with it? I'm having trouble getting the two to work together.

Tikey

30-07-2012, 02:58 PM

No. I had the same trouble, gave up and played in windowed mode.

Kodeen

30-07-2012, 03:01 PM

Finished the main campaign for Fallout 3 yesterday, and I think I can call this game done. There are still a few side quests to do, including all of the DLC content which I haven't even touched, but I just don't have the desire to do any of it.

This is pretty much how I've always reacted to Bethesda games. I have a lot of fun with it up front, but eventually they get too samey and the amount of stuff to do that is all the same is just uninteresting. Ah well, I still got my money's worth of enjoyment out of it.

Gonna take a crack at Revenge of the Titans this evening.

Nalano

30-07-2012, 04:06 PM

ForumWarz, funny enough.

Beyond that, I haven't touched a game since the end of Guild Wars 2's last beta. All I want to play is Guild Wars 2.

Ravelle

30-07-2012, 04:14 PM

ForumWarz, funny enough.

Beyond that, I haven't touched a game since the end of Guild Wars 2's last beta. All I want to play is Guild Wars 2.

Almost man, Almost.

arathain

30-07-2012, 05:01 PM

Ah, it's such a joy to find that one game. May you start high and burn slow, Nalano.

Drake Sigar

30-07-2012, 09:35 PM

Tanner - "I need keys."

Jones - "You need pants."

Tanner - "... give me yours."

Finished Driver: San Fran and I'm surprised they didn't Total Recall the ending because there's a thousand side missions left to finish in Tanner's head (seriously, and I thought Saint's Row the Third had a lot of side missions!) Doesn't matter, the game is happy to drop you back in imagination city after the credits and let you finish whatever you want.

The final battle in Tanner's head was like a Jedi fight with cars. So awesome. The final battle in the real world was rather anti-climatic in comparison. There's a message there somewhere. I think it's that the real world kinda sucks.

NathanH

30-07-2012, 10:27 PM

This week I will be playing Crusader Kings 2, Might and Magic: Clash of Subtitles, Hegemony Gold: Wars of Subtitles, and Magic: The Subtitle: Duels of the Subsubtitles.

mrpier

30-07-2012, 10:38 PM

Bioshock 2 - I think I enjoyed it more than the first. It hasn't got that Andrew Ryan moment of course, but the mechanics feel a bit better and the story is quite good. I liked the ending, I believe I got the "good" ending where I rescued all the little sisters.

LTK

30-07-2012, 11:37 PM

Gorzan

31-07-2012, 12:16 AM

Today I found myself enjoying more Just Cause 2 than the other days, I guess I just can't play iy like I play most games. I must pick it for smaller bursts and inbetween games that are really different, like Civ IV and Mirror's Edge right now. When I started with it I had just finished Saints Row: The Third, so I guess it wasn't different enough.

Herzog

31-07-2012, 07:49 AM

Have been playing Warsow again the last few days. Version 1.0. has been released this weekend and the Bomb&Defuse mode is great fun. For everybody interested here is the download link.

http://www.warsow.net/

Still wondering why this hasnt been mentioned on the frontpage!

ado

31-07-2012, 08:20 AM

I started Bioshock last night as well; it's my 2nd try at playing the game. I don't really remember why I gave up on it the 1st time, so I decided to go back to it and get my ass through it.

The opening 2 hours are quite enjoyable and atmospheric and challenging. One thing that kinda took me aback where the few points where the game takes control from you and goes in the 1st person cutscene mode. Why anyone would do this is beyond me, especially a game that's already praying at the altar of Half Life.

Voon

31-07-2012, 11:29 AM

A fisherdwarf is trapped in the other side of the stream. I don't know how he got there, but he does have a swimming skill at least at Novice or Adequete. Then, he went hungry and goes on hunting for vermin, even when he can catch and feed on raw fish everyday until the bridge is erected.

...my god, he's retarded

Oshada

31-07-2012, 12:42 PM

Slowly playing through a variety of games, but mostly Binary Domain. I find it absurd that people play it using a controller. Then again I'm completely uncoordinated using a controller for any shooting game except LA Noire (which is not really a shooting game at all).

DzX

31-07-2012, 01:18 PM

I just completed Arkham City. The reviews weren't kidding when they stated the game almost has too much content. I initially mocked such comments but whilst playing found myself tripping over optional missions, Riddler trophies and so on and found they did tend to detract from the oppressive atmosphere the game attempted to deliver [which is why in terms of narrative Arkham Asylum is superior game]. Even the amount of dialogue is staggering - I'd try my best to hide in the shadows and listen in on enemies discussing events [most seem to have this weird love-hate relationship with Batman, where they defend him in conversation one minute and then try to kill him] and find the enemies could talk for a minute or so without looping, all whilst discussing current story events and side-mission content.

It's also one of the few games I've played that successfully pulls off a major plot twist that had been heavily foreshadowed without being overt.

Skull

31-07-2012, 01:33 PM

Bioshock...
Have to say I’m quite enjoying it, also finding it harder than I expected.

You do realise you can't die right? Unless you're playing it without using the vita-chambers, in which case, good on you!

Currently trying to see what people are loving about LoL. It's slowly clicking using Ashe and Ryze, but I'm still rubbish at the game, often getting slayed by bots. I don't know how long it will take me to be able to play competitively against other players and be useful instead of a hindrance but I can imagine it will take a long while. Best advice I've received is don't worry about kills, worry about not getting killed.

LutherBlissett

31-07-2012, 01:55 PM

Well, this is my Fort on a Mac, so I don't know if DT is available there

Dwarf Therapist is available on OSX in the Dwarf Builder package. I'm waiting till I have a run of hours before doing any more DF learning.

alms

31-07-2012, 02:36 PM

Half-Life 2 and Stacking (I'm doing it the completionist way so it's taking a fair amount of time, only just finished the ship level in 4 hours). I now have a X360 pad so I'm revisiting a few games that I had troubles with using my previous pad, like Lunar Flight and Sequence.

Juan Carlo

31-07-2012, 04:04 PM

I'm surprised how much I'm loving Death to Spies. The production values are a bit low, but the mission design is very well done. They are huge, varied, and some of the missions (like the SS schoolhouse one) play almost more like puzzle games than action stealth (and in that sense, it really owes a debt to Commandos, I think). Plus, it's one of the most diabolically difficult games I've ever played. Like, insanely difficult. I was certain, for example, the level where you blow up the bridge was impossible on expert, but then an hour later I figured out a way through it.

The JG Man

31-07-2012, 05:07 PM

Started playing Metro 2033 and so far, a little conflicted. I've removed the crosshair, changed the voice work to Russian (and put on subtitles, naturally) for that added immersion effect. After that, it all went a little iffy. I say after, what I really mean is during; the game wouldn't recognise KB/M inputs because my controller was plugged in. Because obviously if my controller is plugged in, I'm absolutely going to use it...Anyhow, I eventually got into the game.

At the moment, none of the guns I have feel like they deliver any impact. I'm not asking for my starter weapons to be good, but I am asking them to feel like guns that shoot bullets as opposed to water pistols that fire water. I really dig the atmosphere though and it's one of the few games I'll allow the excessive "HD is grey" to slip through. Unfortunately, fairly early on I encountered a stealth section that took me an hour to do properly because my throwing knives would either somehow miss the target or I wouldn't kill a person in the precise place that meant the other folks wouldn't immediately go "Ah, what was that sound? While there are many rats running about, how about we take our shotguns and shoot anything that moves." And then the screen starts throbbing red and it's all a bit annoying.

Perhaps it's coming from Serious Sam - and it probably is - but the lack of manual saving is weak, the inability to carry more weapons than you have slots for (ie. having some sort of inventory) is annoying and stealth sections can go screw themselves. Also, I dislike the game branding me some sort of heartless bastard (an achievement) because when given the choice to pay a kid to take me to someone over me exploring first and then choosing the latter, it wasn't because I wouldn't have happily given money to a hungry child, but because I want to damn well explore the area I'm in first. Nevertheless, I will continue. I get the impression though this will not be a long game, for better or worse.

On a side note, it does look very pretty in DX11. No idea on my FPS, I imagine it's low but I can't be bothered to check and it seems to be working well enough.

NathanH

31-07-2012, 05:15 PM

Disappointingly, Duels of the Planeswalkers will not reduce an enemy's life below -9999.

LTK

31-07-2012, 05:28 PM

Also, I dislike the game branding me some sort of heartless bastard (an achievement) because when given the choice to pay a kid to take me to someone over me exploring first and then choosing the latter, it wasn't because I wouldn't have happily given money to a hungry child, but because I want to damn well explore the area I'm in first. Nevertheless, I will continue. I get the impression though this will not be a long game, for better or worse.

I guess in some other games, paying the kid would cause the screen to fade to black and have you reappear at whatever sectioned-off area you were needed in. Were you expecting that?

What actually happens is that the kid simply walks you toward the quest-giver, and you're free to stay or leave from there. No impediment to your exploration whatsoever.

Alternatively, you can refuse to care about achievements, which makes the whole thing irrelevant!

vinraith

31-07-2012, 05:54 PM

Disappointingly, Duels of the Planeswalkers will not reduce an enemy's life below -9999.

But then how are you supposed to kill them 500 times before they hit the ground?

OT: Still playing Fallout New Vegas, and I've found that lovely "Bethesda RPG" exploration groove that I love so very much. I hate playing back through old content, but by deviating from the proscribed path far more than I did on my first, aborted playthrough, I'm finding all kinds of fun stuff and having a lovely time. So far, at least, my mod loadout hasn't exploded in my face, either. I'm hopefuly I won't have the stability problems that made me stop playing when I got to New Vegas itself last time. With any luck I'll be at this, and enjoying myself, for a good long time to come.

mrki

31-07-2012, 06:06 PM

Spacechem, Atropos Station, Assignment 5: Accidents Happen continues to defy me. 70 symbols in, and I discover that it all falls apart once the second Phosphorous atom comes along. I'm going to be a hundred years old before I finish this game.

Heh, I know that feeling. I'm just one step ahead of you, at the defense mission on the station but "Accidents Happen" is one of the few where I couldn't beat the average scores.

To add content, I'm going through the shorter games that i picked up during the Great Steam Sale of the Summer 2012. Space Marine is enjoyable, not much variety going on but the shooting and mashing feels good so I don't mind. I'm also playing a bit of Orcs Must Die with DX:HR in the queue.

As a sidenote, I found Revenge of the Titans to be really hard, never managed to get off Earth.

magnus1969

31-07-2012, 06:15 PM

As a sidenote, I found Revenge of the Titans to be really hard, never managed to get off Earth.

Stick at it, if I can remember correctly I'm on the 3rd area.

postinternetsyndrome

31-07-2012, 07:20 PM

The JG Man: As far as I know, no stealth is mandatory anywhere in Metro 2033. It is an option, but you can always just shoot everyone.

SirKicksalot

31-07-2012, 07:27 PM

At the moment, none of the guns I have feel like they deliver any impact. I'm not asking for my starter weapons to be good, but I am asking them to feel like guns that shoot bullets as opposed to water pistols that fire water.

Aim for the neck.

Kodeen

31-07-2012, 07:58 PM

As a sidenote, I found Revenge of the Titans to be really hard, never managed to get off Earth.

I played about a half hour last night and I don't think it's really for me. Either the waves are very manageable and I'm bored, or there are a lot of enemies and I'm frantic. I'll at least play through Earth to give it a fair chance. We'll see.

Heliocentric

31-07-2012, 10:54 PM

Got off earth spamming missile upgrades... not a good game tbh, terrible balance.

The JG Man

31-07-2012, 11:22 PM

I guess in some other games, paying the kid would cause the screen to fade to black and have you reappear at whatever sectioned-off area you were needed in. Were you expecting that? //
Alternatively, you can refuse to care about achievements, which makes the whole thing irrelevant!

More that it would trigger the next quest automatically, which I didn't want to do. Nevermind though. You're right on the second point, to some degree; I like achievements that make me play the game differently to how I would do or that otherwise achieve something worth pointing out, so in this case it's meaningless, but at the time I thought it was stupid.

The JG Man: As far as I know, no stealth is mandatory anywhere in Metro 2033. It is an option, but you can always just shoot everyone.

No, but stealthing a few dudes so that the shoot-out is far easier would certainly be better. Either that or rapidly use med kits, which I'm not prepared to do. The fact that moments before you'd picked up throwing knives that insta-kill when fired at someone's back was also a sign, I felt. Good to know for the future, when I amass better weapons.

Aim for the neck.

Noted.

Giaddon

01-08-2012, 02:46 AM

What am I playing...?

> DLC for Quantum Conundrum hit today, so I checked it out. No story. Beat the first puzzle, which used all the dimensions and was pretty big. Neat. Will play more.

> Picked up The Next Big Thing for $6 on Greenman Gaming (sale still going on). The writing is pretty good, some funny stuff and some groaners. I like that the girl I'm playing is kind of crazy, which manifests itself in weird dialogue options being available. Kind of like playing a Malkavian obsessed with refrigerators.

> Slowly exploring the Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet. Gorgeous.

> Oh yeah, and the Cook Serve Delicious beta! (made by the guy who made the Oil Blue!... You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?) It's good.

Kamilia

01-08-2012, 07:30 AM

I've just finished Binary Domain and despite a few minor niggles I absolutely loved it. When I say niggles they're those which come down to how picky a gamer the person playing it is. I'll get these out of the way first.are you enjoying the game like magical heroes,baseball heroes (http://www.dotmmo.com/baseball-heroes-10737.html) could meet all your needs of a free gamer.

kataras

01-08-2012, 07:38 AM

Started playing Metro 2033 and so far, a little conflicted...

Stealth is not mandatory but can be useful as you said to thin enemies out a bit. Try and get a silenced pistol from the 1st market you run across and if you have the money a stealth suit. I m guessing you are at the tunnel, after being dropped off from the wagon, before the Red camp? If so, do a 180 from where the checkpoint spawns you, kill the enemies behind you and find a NVG device in a box on the wall down the tunnel. Remember you can also shoot out most lights.

Shoot for the head or neck, depending on whether they wear helmets or not. The knives are very good but it's tricky to figure out where they land. Your 'crosshairs' are basically the bunch of knives he keeps in his left hand, when he gets ready to throw them (his right hand is pulled back etc). I would say stick with it, it can be annoying at some points but it's one of the best scripted shooters I ve played.

sabrage

01-08-2012, 08:38 AM

Thank god I didn't pay any money for Dirt 3. I can't offhand recall the last time I played a game that seemed so violently determined to piss me off from the get-go: launching in windowed mode (with a font so small as to be rendered comical) underneath my active browser window (and neglecting to show up on my Start menu to alert me to the fact that it had, indeed, launched), refusing to recognize my mouse with a gamepad plugged in, forcing a GFWL sign in (with requisite account sync) followed by 3-5 minutes of unskippable clerical bullshit before I could even get to the options menu. I do like the ability to pick my own voiceover nickname for the announcers. I went with "Maverick", but only because "Charlemagne" was sadly not an option. ("Omelette" was a tempting runner-up) Now it seems hellbent on not running in fullscreen, so fuck it.

elephant god

01-08-2012, 10:32 AM

After finally pre-ordering Torchlight 2 via the RPS 4-pack trading thread, I had a dip into the original, and already sunk in some 16 hours since sunday. The original really already was a pitch perfect kill'n'loot'em up!

Now I've looked at a few mods, as this perfectly-timed article on GOG (http://www.gog.com/news/mod_spotlight_torchlight) just brought them up. Modding really is terribly easy with this game. Texture mods, stash mods, custom classes, it's all just an unzip away!

Battle Programmer Spike

01-08-2012, 11:05 AM

I can vouch for the SSS Texture Pack, Merchant Pack, Starch, Ferret Pet (by Runic), Brighter Map and some other goodies. Also RGF HotSpot is an awesome tool

Jams O'Donnell

01-08-2012, 11:08 AM

NathanH

01-08-2012, 11:22 AM

I am at war with the Pope and the Caliph, and my vassals are rebelling because they are all French and I am Greek. And I was one child away from uniting Byzantium, Georgia, Trebizond, Hungary, and Sicily. Now it's all collapsed. Life sucks.

Velko

01-08-2012, 11:33 AM

Ravelle

01-08-2012, 12:48 PM

Completed the story of Arkham City, now that's how you make a game and write a story; can't wait for the next Bat-game.

roryok

01-08-2012, 01:02 PM

I played through the first 4 levels of FarCry until I got to the mutants, again pondered how the game might play if I just modded them all out, but eventually stopped playing after a crash-to-desktop

Would it work? I think it would. Will I do it? No.

Then went back to playing Skyrim after reinstalling to clear an issue with my textures getting all screwy after I uninstalled the HiRes Texture pack

LTK

01-08-2012, 02:03 PM

Heh, I know that feeling. I'm just one step ahead of you, at the defense mission on the station but "Accidents Happen" is one of the few where I couldn't beat the average scores.

I did it! I was struggling with having to store one H away for every P that came through, which required me to put the sensor early in the cycle. But I also had to distinguish the finished products, PH3 and SH4 from each other, which required me to put the sensor late in the cycle, when I had already made PH2 or SH2. I needed two sensors, but only had one. What to do?

Eventually I solved this by simply putting two output commands on the same red track. First it dropped the output molecule on the border of the phi window, where PH3 would fit but SH4 wouldn't. If it passed the phi-out command, it refuses to accept the molecule if it's only partially in the output window, so it takes PH3 but not SH4. Afterwards it grabs SH4, puts it in the omega output window, and passes the omega-out command. If it was moving PH3, it just moves nothing, so it does no harm.

I trimmed it down to 59 symbols (higher than average) and 1181 cycles (slightly higher than average). Success!

Gorzan

01-08-2012, 02:34 PM

I've just finished Just Cause 2 story. The last two missions were great, but since I'm not the kind of gamer who usually does a game 100% I don't think I'll be playing much more of it soon, maybe in a few weeks I'll feel like doing a couple of missions.
Wathever the case, it wasn't all that great to me, I didn't feel that emptiness I feel when I finish a videogame I recently finished.

agentorange

01-08-2012, 04:03 PM

Said fuck it to KotOR 1 and have playing through The Sith Lords with the restored content patch; it's a true joy to be playing the game for the fourth time and see all this new dialogue, with even some of the more subtle lines adding further depth to the already intricate plot lines.

Tikey

01-08-2012, 04:33 PM

Did you get the widescreen fix working?

Drake Sigar

01-08-2012, 06:14 PM

Having a few small problems here, most notably long periods of being unable to move after combat, sometimes prompting a load game.

And I HATE the starting area.

Fumarole

01-08-2012, 06:23 PM

I've been playing Human Resources and spending a lot of time choking people.

Similar

01-08-2012, 06:41 PM

I'm still in video card RMA limbo, and am starting to run out of games to play that run on my onboard graphics. However, last night I played a ton of Defence Grid, and actually really enjoyed it this time. Are the map packs worth picking up?
Sort of. I think for me the main problem with them is that they're not part of the campaign, so, like with skirmish maps in strategy games, I kind of miss a context. That said, I have played some of them a good bit.
I got them all for free in last year's summer sale, so I can hardly complain, though.

I have the "You Monster" DLC too, but despite having had it since the winter sale (or so), I've only played the first map and it somehow didn't grab me. I need to give it another try at some point.

Heliocentric

01-08-2012, 06:53 PM

I've been playing Human Resources and spending a lot of time choking people.

And what have you been doing in the game?

LTK

01-08-2012, 06:58 PM

And what have you been doing in the game?
What game? He's talking about his job. Bit of a weird place to do so, but okay.

Anthile

01-08-2012, 07:02 PM

Heliocentric

01-08-2012, 07:03 PM

What game? He's talking about his job. Bit of a weird place to do so, but okay.

Sorry, totally misunderstood. Bare hands or some kind of strap/cord?

Similar

01-08-2012, 07:29 PM

The map packs are pretty good but as Similar said, they have no campaign and no narrative behind them, except for the You Monster one. I also thought they were a lot harder than the original maps and some of them had me figuratively throwing stuff at the monitor.
oh yes. I only barely made it through the final map of the campaign (I've replayed it quite a few times, but I always win with only one or two cores left), so both the map packs and You Monster (the map I've played, at least) do seem like a major difficulty spike.
With You Monster it may be more the layout of the first map, though; it's so open that I have a hard time not losing my overview and I always either miss an opening or accidentally make one by closing off areas completely (so the attackers just wade through one of my towers).

Gorzan

01-08-2012, 07:58 PM

I've just started Portal 2. I don't get why the hell does it need to tell me what every graphic option does before I change it. YES I know what antialiasing does, will you shut up and just let me put it on max?.
Otherwise I think I'm liking it better thant the first, the prologue was great.

Wayward_Ronin

01-08-2012, 08:06 PM

I have a massive backlog but I'm swiftly chewing through them because I have so little patience nowadays. I could be reading or watching something interesting instead of ploughing through another derivative game.

Red Faction Armageddon - Gave up after about two hours. I generally like blowing stuff up, but the weaponry is unsatisfying and the weighting of people and buildings is too light and floaty for my taste.

Avernum IV - Interesting setting. Old school. Packed with perfunctory junk fights. No interesting characters and only a mildy interesting plot. Gave up after 10 hours and unlikely to play the other Avernums.

Hard Reset - Backpedal, click click click. Clumsy weapon changing. Meh. Gave it an hour.

Max Payne 3 - One of the finest action games I've ever watched. I may have pressed some buttons. To be fair I mostly enjoyed it, but I felt like it was designed to make me use cover too much and go easy on the shoot dodging. And there are plenty of other cover-shoot games.

Anomaly: War Zone Earth - The voice acting. IT BURNS.

Anno 1404 - Hypnotically soothing and stress free. Has brought a smile to my curmudgeonly face.

Fumarole

01-08-2012, 09:11 PM

Sorry, totally misunderstood. Bare hands or some kind of strap/cord?Personally I prefer the Darth Vader long distance esophagus massage.

LTK

01-08-2012, 09:52 PM

Hard Reset - Backpedal, click click click. Clumsy weapon changing. Meh. Gave it an hour.
Tip: You can use F to switch between the two main weapons, instead of using Q for one and E for the other. If you mean the weapon mode switching is clumsy, I totally agree. It's a shame they didn't include a set of mode icons on the UI.

Tritagonist

01-08-2012, 10:06 PM

Played some more Gran Turismo 5 (oh no!). It's very enjoyable, but it seems like they put at least four different teams on AI development - and never had them meet. The AI performance in this game is all over the place, and, as is usual in games, the AI is incapable of taking slow corners at anything resembling decent speeds.

On a more PC-related note; played an hour or so of Skyrim. Made a new Dunmer character, with which I'll attempt to pursue a more melee-weapons oriented style of combat.

arathain

02-08-2012, 02:41 AM

New Dungeons of Dredmor expansion? Whyyyyy? Must... resist...urge to make 17 new characters... communists...

Ravelle

02-08-2012, 02:55 AM

Kamilia

02-08-2012, 03:46 AM

I'm playing 2ed D&D, in a shared homebrew world. Have played 3ed, and have been thinking about delving into Pathfinder…with the latest release, knight age (http://www.dotmmo.com/knight-age-9161.html) would be a big hit this summer

Voon

02-08-2012, 05:43 AM

Fuck. One of my Dwarves went berserk and killed my cook! Now, who's gonna make dinner?

Dubbill

02-08-2012, 06:51 AM

I should still be playing Diablo 3. I love games with meaningful character progression and interesting loot. D3 has neither of these so I'm playing Tales of Maj'Eyal (http://te4.org/) instead.

Gorzan

02-08-2012, 09:16 AM

Falled in for Transformers: War of Cybertron, because I'm a weak person. The first level was certainly fun, and most weapons have a great feeling.

Applying smooth jazz, now.
This is Art, you will hear a beep, when you hear the beep stay close to Art.

agentorange

02-08-2012, 10:01 AM

Downloaded and played through The Worry of Newport today. It opened strong, but kept getting weaker as it goes on. Getting a bit tired of these "Lovecraft inspired" horror plots really.

Continuing with KotOR 2, finally reached Nar Shadaa which is one my favorite hubs in any RPG.

Ravelle

02-08-2012, 10:42 AM

Doing the remaining sidemissions in Arkham City, Deadshot is taken care of; Riddler, Hush, assaults and that damn Augmented reality training remain.

Oshada

02-08-2012, 12:58 PM

that damn Augmented reality training

Man, FUCK that shit.

Patrick Swayze

02-08-2012, 01:33 PM

So I just completed Syndicate which I bought for £6 in the origin summer sale.

As far as single player man shoots go... not bad.

Wonderful sound design and lighting that rivals Mirror's Edge.

If it had nothing to do with Syndicate I think it would reviewed quite highly but alas the internet conspired to make it's life hell.

Lots of little nods to it's heritage too which I thought was nice.

Glad I waited for it to go down in price though, since nobody is playing the co-op. Solid 7/10 fun.

And now I've just started The Witcher.... Why did I wait so long 0_0

Besides the awfully long opening video and the funny seems along the torso/necks its excellent. Looking forward to plodding my way through it.

Any recommendations for classes/builds?

sonson

02-08-2012, 01:38 PM

You do realise you can't die right? Unless you're playing it without using the vita-chambers, in which case, good on you!

Currently trying to see what people are loving about LoL. It's slowly clicking using Ashe and Ryze, but I'm still rubbish at the game, often getting slayed by bots. I don't know how long it will take me to be able to play competitively against other players and be useful instead of a hindrance but I can imagine it will take a long while. Best advice I've received is don't worry about kills, worry about not getting killed.

Not using the chambers no. Although I wish when you died it would load our last save rather than take you back to the menu screen, seems to just be an unnecessary waste of time.

Just finished Fort Frolic, which I can say without hesitation could well have killed me had I not known about the Plastered splicers in advance. It was unpleasant enough even with that.

I’ve been looking up how to use plasmids more inventively and generally challenged myself to play a bit more rather than just working through for the sake of the plot and to collect recordings. Initially there wasn’t really much of a disconnect between doing this and killing things but the levels have got bigger and Spawns more frequent so it feels like an adventure game and a shooter spliced (arf) together, and the joins are pretty obvious. Still enjoying it but get the feeling the game could be half as long, while still getting all the best elements so far in there and be a better experience for it.

Gorzan

02-08-2012, 01:40 PM

I've just finished Portal 2 singleplayer. It was so great, every single bit of it, certainly better than the first. But now I can't wait to know what happens next!

Heliocentric

02-08-2012, 01:52 PM

I've just finished Portal 2 singleplayer. It was so great, every single bit of it, certainly better than the first. But now I can't wait to know what happens next!

The cooperative content is "what happens next", go play it, its awesome.

Gorzan

02-08-2012, 02:13 PM

Yeah, I just need to find one of my friends who hasn't played it yet. And its not what happens next with Chell.

Voon

02-08-2012, 03:30 PM

I've just finished Portal 2 singleplayer. It was so great, every single bit of it, certainly better than the first. But now I can't wait to know what happens next!

I prefered the first one's SP. Better puzzles, if you ask me. And somehow, I can't stand Wheatley in the second game.

BUT! The co-op experience seemed to be the more of the actual game compared to the SP in Portal 2. The puzzles were harder than both games combined but with a bro on your side, it's all worth solving together.

Lukasz

02-08-2012, 05:41 PM

39 hours into Baldurs Gate.

Left BG after doing i think every quest possible but before confronting Iron Throne to travel around areas i missed, skipped. I think i am overpowered as stuff just dies without much of an effort. My team is all level 8 except imoen who is level 7 thief but level 6 mage.
Remember on my first playthrough that sirens where a bitch to kill. This time tough, they took no effort whatsoever. I should have done those areas before venturing to BG. Or even before Cloakwood (which was very difficult, especially with my unwillingness to camp outside inns)
Love it so much and can't get enough.

elephant god

02-08-2012, 07:02 PM

I prefered the first one's SP. Better puzzles, if you ask me. And somehow, I can't stand Wheatley in the second game.

BUT! The co-op experience seemed to be the more of the actual game compared to the SP in Portal 2. The puzzles were harder than both games combined but with a bro on your side, it's all worth solving together.

god, yes, I was butting heads with my buddy when we played it in co-op. It is really hard at times, but having two people thinking, coordinating, tinkering around in a room always bears a breakthrough at some point, and that breakthrough you pull of together with a good friend is a thing I haven't experienced in games, ever. I'll be sad when we've done them all, though, because I'll know them, and all that's left will be a sort of challenge in coordination...

Shooop

02-08-2012, 07:03 PM

Downloading texture packs for Grand Theft Auto 4 which I bought during the Summer Steam sale, waiting to see if the ultra-hyped patch for Blacklight actually makes the game playable, and test-driving WARFACE(!) thanks to PC Gamer's article about how to get into it if you don't live in Russia.

It's surprisingly competent for a modern FPS. The only thing I really hate about it are how absolutely tiny the maps are.

magnus1969

02-08-2012, 07:15 PM

Heliocentric

02-08-2012, 08:29 PM

Downloading texture packs for Grand Theft Auto 4

Gods own PC eh?

The JG Man

02-08-2012, 10:23 PM

I have several serious issues with Metro 2033 which I feel are annoying me to the extent of requiring a list.

1. The AI. Precisely, the AI can go [very censored]. "I've heard a ping, so let us all open fire in the direction of that ping without remorse of wasting precious ammo, giving away our position, anything." I get it, the atmosphere is tense and there's a lot of bad will, but holy crap, so much as look at someone funny and everyone within the confines of whatever area you're in will start hunting you down with military precision. The faux stealth sections here are hilarious and I've reached a point where it's turned into a literal tunnel shooter. You have no space to move, no opportunity to continue stealthing, so your only way forward is a straight-up gunfight where you're out-numbered, out-gunned and woefully out-positioned. With the eagle eyes of the AI, they only need two people; one to be shot by you and the other to gun you down.

2. The throwing knives. In particular, their completely ridiculous working mechanics. Knife anywhere from behind equals an instant-kill, but throw one into their chest from the front, or their face, albeit covered with nightvision goggles, and you might as well have shot a bullet in them (for all the damage they do). The thing is, they work well enough that it just about makes you encouraged to keep on using them, realising that you're only a short reload from the last checkpoint. Not that that's a problem considering you'll have had so much practice using them after a miraculous failure many times prior.
2a. Most weapons seem to be inconsistent on use, apart from the electric-shock thing that does seem to out-right 1HK.

3. The checkpoints are awful and I want manual saving.

4. I feel like I'm being penalised too much for playing the game how I want to play it. "Well, I do have my long ranged silenced pistol, my assault rifle and electric-shock thing weapon, so I probably don't need to upgrade my rifle to one with a scope. I've got all bases covered." What that shop just before this section was actually doing was foreshadowing your absolute need for heavy fire-power to mow down waves of human enemies because no route of stealth is open to you; despite the fact that avoiding combat has been something completely possible in the past.

I feel like there's a good enough game beyond a lot of the crap, but I can't see how I could ever recommend this to someone over, say, STALKER.