What are you playing at the moment?

[Drake Sigar]

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]

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]

>Store item in stockpile
>Store item in stockpile
>Store item in stockpile
>Store item in stockpile
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>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]

To the moon.

;_________;

[Gorzan]

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]

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]

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.

[ado]

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]

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

[fiddlesticks]

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.

[Casimir Effect]

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



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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

[Lukasz]

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.

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]

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.