I remember the moment I came to the realization that I despised every single party member in NWN2. With a special hatred for Bishop.
I remember the moment I came to the realization that I despised every single party member in NWN2. With a special hatred for Bishop.
Irrelevant on further examination of the rest of the thread.
I hate the first act of NWN2.
We all do, Caddy. We all do.
Just played through Kentucky Route Zero (Act 1) for the first time. Wow.
I'm not going to spoil anything, but (a) don't play with the sound off, unless you're deaf; and (b) I think it probably works best if you play it in as few sittings as possible, or over a short-ish time. One play-through took me a little over two hours, so it should be do-able.
"Harry uses the One Ring to defeat Magneto and save the Rebellion!"
With thanks to RaveTurned in comments on the main page.
Okay, so I've come to the conclusion that Just Cause 2 isnt for me! Gorgeous game, love the grappling hook, but man do I just not enjoy playing it very much. That being said, I got 4 hours out of it and I'm pretty sure I bought it for like $2.50 on sale, so I guess I got my moneys worth.
Anyway, I now consider that one to be off the backlog, which means that I'm on to the next game. Specifically, Assassins Creed. I really just want to get to the second one, but this one is decent enough for what it is, and I love walking around the cities.
Just Cause 2 is a pure sandbox game. Turn the cheats up, mod the hell out of it and enjoy.Originally Posted by Track
AC: Brotherhood is really kind of annoying. There's no improvement over AC2 to my mind and it seems to concentrate far more on the annoying as balls mission types, ie. those involving not being detected and those where you have to slowly follow someone, or even worse a combination of both.
And sometimes the game doesn't even know what the mission parameters are. I just had one where I had to walk with people while dressed as a French soldier, killing guards at roadblocks along the way. Except sometimes the game would desync me if I killed the guards before the people reached them, while other times it would fail me if I didn't kill them in time. There was no consistancy and sometimes I'd fail for no reason at all. And that's really where the game falls down for me: there are too many times where the failure state is linked to some arbitrary condition. If the mission involves me being undetected then give me a chance to kill the wee prick who detected me before he can tell anyone, or change the mission to reflect my detection as other games would. Not this instafail shit. Anything but that.
Not much of a game, really, but I felt like posting about Press X To Die, a weird, kind of disturbing bullfighting game:
http://joon.be/toy/pressx/
Found it on Gameological, and I have to say that it does a great job with atmosphere. Its creepy and unsettling in the best way, and although the gameplay itself takes some getting used to (hint: only change stance once the bull enters slow-mo) I'd say that its worth it for the 5-ish minutes it takes to play and the fantastic soundtrack.
How the heck do you stab that bastard,i lift the sword then put it down and he drops it,then the bull hits me-.-
... I take the lives of a few to protect the lives of many. I commit acts of war to preserve the greater peace. I take no joy in killing, but make no mistake; I'll do what needs to be done. Because it's my job. It's my duty. My name is Sam Fisher, and I am a Splinter Cell.
Yeah I had a lot of trouble with it too until I read a couple comments on another site. Basically, right when it goes into slow-mo, press space to change stance. If you do this correctly, even if you fail to hit the bull it wont hit you. Press the up arrow, then the down arrow whenever the bull overlaps with you, though don't wait too long because the time will speed back up to normal and you'll have lost your chance. Also note that you dont have to lift the sword all the way up, just a bit and then the down arrow should work.
All this talk of Abrams directing a new Star Wars got me nostalgic for the original Knights Of The Old Republic. Unfortunately it looked bloody awful on my new monitor, so I sought out a widescreen fix, and after minimal effort in patching plus the addition of some texture mods and general improvements, it looks really nice running at 1920x1080.
Essential purely cosmetic improvement mods I would recommend, all available at the games' FileFront page:
Hi-Res Ebon Hawk
A 2048x2048 resolution retexturing of the exterior of the Ebon Hawk. Quite nice, if a little too mosaic styled in parts. Still better than the original.
Canderous Ordo clothing
Gives Canderous Ordo some better clothing with a metallic Mandalorian symbol on the back of the waistcoat.
Carth Onasi clothing
I'm torn between two different ones here. The first is an Infiltrator suit for Carth that replaces the godawful orange flight jacket with a more muted one with some stat upgrades, while the second is a jet black outfit that might be a bit too extreme a change for some.
Juhani clothing
Some recolouring and added texture to what was a drab outfit.
Republic Uniform mod
Changes the orange and yellow Republic soldier uniforms to a far less awful looking dark red/dark grey version.
Darth Malak retexture
Vastly improves the look of both Malaks' head and armour, making him far more menacing in appearance. Before and after shot;
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Deadlight's story really wasn't super awesome. It started of a bit mediocre and then ran off in the wrong direction. Acting sucked. I'm not saying that it's a bad game, though. It's nice to look at and features sometimes-challenging Limbo style platforming, which I like (Limbo is way better, though).
Currently hesitant to resume Recettear, since I have five or six days to earn over 400,000 pix... I feel a surprisingly real sense of horror about it. It may be doable, but it's highly unlikely. What happens if I fail? Is it just "Game over. Goodbye!" or can I just pay some extra interest or something?
That actually looks pretty good. How is it in motion?
I failed the first time at about the same amount. The game is nice though, and what happens is:
you restart at day 1 with all your items, merchant level, fusion-unlocks and probably some other stuff I've forgotten. In other words, as you probably have a surplus of items that you were just unable to sell in time in your previous game, you start the next game not having to worry about the first few weeks as you'll have one or two pieces that can cover the amount owed by themselves. Also, I believe the mercenaries retain their level, although I can't remember if you need to 'recruit' them again before they will be available to dungeon crawl with.
It's the sort of game that is forgiving and wants you to finish it, so every time will progress you more. Which is useful, seeing as the Young Girl is a skinflint whore of the first order and the Old Man is a cheapass motherfucker...
Recettear made me weirdly angry at times.
Other than the fact that it forces 800x600 cinematics to be blown up to whatever your selected widescreen resolution is, it's still damn fine looking despite the age of the game. At 1920x1080, those cinematics look jaggy as hell. There are HUD mods to go along with the widescreen patcher, which is a big help.
The trick with that little <expletive deleted> girl is that she has no idea what anything she's selling is worth, so while you can't sell to her for a reasonable price, you can buy from her for next to nothing.
Buying games you aren't going to play is a waste of money (no matter how cheap they are). Forcing yourself to play games you wish you hadn't bought is a waste of time. Both are best avoided.
Oh, really? Thanks, that helped. Now I'll at least be able to sleep. So it's probably a bad idea to just empty the stock by selling low to the market then? It might be worth it if I'm just slightly off target, though.
The old man I can handle, but the girl is a pain in the ass. I wish I could bar her from the store or ditch her in a dungeon.
Really? I generally find her more difficult to buy from as well. Could be that I have way more established relationships with everyone else, I suppose.
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Finished XCOM. Something wonky/cheap happened two turns into the last encounter, so I reloaded the previous turn, repeated two of the things I had done before and the game was over. A bit anticlimactic.
Okay, this is a bit annoying about building rollercoasters. I'm not much of a Physics guy despite having an interest in it but what the hell does 'lateral Gs' mean? How does it even work in this?Because when I finished making one, sometimes the lateral Gs appear as red and I got something like Ultra-Extreme on the intensity rating.
TELL ME YOUR SECRETS
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Bah! My blog is fulla bollox! What? Don't believe me?Here! Just look at it!
Playing on normal difficulty. Aside from that, mostly "savescumming," 3 assaults for most missions in the latter half of the game, and rare explosives usage to preserve all the artifacts. My damage per shot was a little over a third of that of the community average, probably because no explosives, but otherwise I beat most of the averages by a fair amount (thanks, hundreds of save files). For the first objective I was WAY behind the days-to-complete average, but for the second I was well ahead. That may have screwed up the balance in some way. The XCOM project was so well funded by the end, I'd like to think the commander did a little embezzling along the way.
All in all, it was a good learning experience that doesn't leave me particularly proud. A new game on classic/ironman is probably in order.
Last edited by internetonsetadd; 02-02-2013 at 04:02 AM.
Yup, tolerate selling to her "at cost" for awhile and you can absolutely skin her alive when she comes in with stuff to sell.
Buying games you aren't going to play is a waste of money (no matter how cheap they are). Forcing yourself to play games you wish you hadn't bought is a waste of time. Both are best avoided.
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