Or, you know, pay people for their work.
The Project Zero series used to be on the PS2, I think - genuinely great terror and horror, to the point that I made excuses to not finish the second one because I was too scared.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 18 December 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
So I've heard! I'll be playing the wii version soon. I'm 97% done downloading. The guide that I linked to worked like a charm. Now my parents won't have to waste money on Skyward Sword this xmas. They can buy something American instead and help our economy
― CaptainBurlapSax, Sunday, 18 December 2011 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
The best games appear to be mostly 3-4 GB (uncompressed)
― CaptainBurlapSax, Sunday, 18 December 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
Nintendo will take all my money in a year with the release of WiiU
― CaptainBurlapSax, Sunday, 18 December 2011 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
with all the new names post-sandbox i can't tell who's canx trollin and who's just a prick
― Stevie, Monday, 19 December 2011 08:05 (twelve years ago) link
Seconded. If trolling; lol, if not; what a fucking prick.
― CraigG, Monday, 19 December 2011 10:13 (twelve years ago) link
Shogun 2 is fun, especially since one of the dlcs just adds your standard overdone arterial sprays after dudes get hacked. We'll see if I can stick with this one long enough to beat it like I did with TW: Napoleon.
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Monday, 19 December 2011 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
just a few hours until ...
http://i.imgur.com/15xJZ.png
― zappi, Monday, 19 December 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
I think I already have a ratio of about 5:1 for <games I have bought through Steam cos they were so cheap>:<games I have actually got round to playing>
― CraigG, Monday, 19 December 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
Finished la noire and started Mass Effect 2. I tried being more renegade instead of paragon, but I started to feel bad about it.
― Jeff, Monday, 19 December 2011 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
oh man another steam sale? how will they take my money from me this time?
― Mordy, Monday, 19 December 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
Sale's on! Server's overloaded and poxy-fuling everyone!
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Monday, 19 December 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
What looks good?
― Mordy, Monday, 19 December 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
Can't tell yet.
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Monday, 19 December 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
radiant historia is p fun and less boring than skyrimmmm
― є(٥_ ٥)э, Monday, 19 December 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
Portal 2 is only 7.50
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
For pure time enjoyably lost / money, <a href="http://store.steampowered.com/sub/13063/">the 2K bundle</a> looks hard to beat (if you don't have any of the games already, of course).
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 01:26 (twelve years ago) link
Honestly, I'll get the hang of this one day
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
is that Warner Bros pack for real? am i missing something here, it looks like an absolute steal
― Fozzielad, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
i would buy so many of those titles at those prices if they ran on a mac
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
i am anticipating this game so much:http://www.gameinformer.com/games/krater/b/pc/archive/2011/11/03/fatshark-reveals-new-diablo-style-loot-grinder-krater.aspx
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
That looks more interesting than Diablo 3 at this point.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
been playing lara croft: gol.... great game!
― cccccc, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it's pretty much "Buy Arkham City, get a ton of stuff free" (except that none of the bricks-and-mortar shops are selling Arkham City for £39.99 - it's £29.99 in all the places I saw today)
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
hey wait there's a pack of the x-com games on there that run on modern computers? well, there goes my vacation
― thompp, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
Bastion is 50% off on Xbox live today fyi
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
great game. highly recommend everyone get it
― Mordy, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
Finally Tropico 4 on sale, grabbing it today.
― kingfish sandbox bonaparte, Tuesday, 20 December 2011 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
will be pissed if that's not still the case when i get back this evening.
― ledge, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 09:23 (twelve years ago) link
have been playing a bunch of saints row III lately. was not a massive fan of SR2, and found i got bored of Just Cause 2 pretty quickly. when it comes to sandbox games, i'm still firmly in the GTA camp, and loved 4 and the DLC - i prefer the stories to the lunacy of SR2. SR3 is pretty fun, though; initially, the vibe and the aesthetic drowned out the gameplay: the whole design scheme and narrative voice is crass and junky and attuned to a 15 year old's TV-damaged sensibility, but once you get used to shooting swathes of stockings-sporting villainesses, its okay. the story is still pretty stupid and none of the characters particularly likeable, and at first it was the enjoyable sidemissions which kept me playing - never get bored of insurance fraud.
a lot of the missions were pretty frustrating and uninspired, and mostly involved shooting the shit out of endless waves of bad guys, with all the tension and jeapoardly of a schwarzenegger action movie. moreover, it was boring, so i switched the skill level to 'casual' and am now just playing through to see how weird it gets. there are some impressive and imaginative missions in there - yesterday i played through one set inside a computer mainframe which reminded me of rez meets psychonauts, and tbh such digressions (of which they are several) make me love this game a little, which i didn't expect.
its still pretty tacky and not massively polished though - like, a bunch of missions find you surrounded by endless bad dudes after completing the objective (fucking with a computer or whatever), and the mission just ends, you get your points, and you find yourself returned to wherever the mission began. not that i would've wanted to kill the rest of the bad dudes, but i always find myself thinking, "okay, he stopped the timebomb, but now how did he escape the bad dudes' lair?", and am a bit stunned that they just don't bother with the aftermath, and it fucks with the suspended disbelief a little.
am i being crazy here? anyone else playing this and bothered by it?
― Stevie, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 10:03 (twelve years ago) link
i tried it, and found it a bit too flakey. ie didn't enjoy the vehicle controls (much like SR2), lots of baddies on screen resulted in a complete mess. and vehicles themselves were daft looking.
i did like the boat i found with the rocket launcher, where i decided to just park up to the beach and endlessly destroy some gangs cars on the roads.
if they'd toned down on the purple too...
― Fozzielad, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 11:54 (twelve years ago) link
so i just got a PS3 and some games as a christmas bonus!
― sir thermo of thinwall, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
congrats! get WipeoutHD ASAP
― OH NOES, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
Woohoo! Nice bonus.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
hmmm
bastion
why wont this dude shut the fuck up
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
it's been an epic sleep deprived few days. i picked up Red Dead Redemption and MW3 to go along with the new Uncharted which came with the console. waiting to start Uncharted until my holidays begin because once i pop that game in, i'm not touching the others!
what's Wipeout like? (i honestly don't know alot about gaming) that game's been around for a while, no?
― sir thermo of thinwall, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, it's a futuristic hover racer with weapons and speed boosts and awesome music you can sub out for your own soundtrack and like 5 different play modes including one where the goal isn't to win the race but to blow up as many of your opponents as possible before time runs out
― OH NOES, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
seriously this narrator thing in bastion is like having a randy newman simulator "hey the kid is hitting some stuff, hey now he walked off the edge of the world, that guy sure is shooting lots of arrows today" *smashes mute button*
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
The narrator in the demo turned me off so much that I never even considered buying that game.
― polyphonic, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i only bought it because it was on sale and people seem to love it so much, but unfortunately i think most of the charm involved is this low rent morgan freeman dude babbling all the time, so the jury is still out. i do really really like the way it looks though.
― PROVEN BY BOOZE SCIENCE, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
the soundtrack is pretty too. and the mechanics are fun.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
i didn't mind the narrator at all (didn't love it as much as some of the reviewers). i imagine if you hate it tho, it'll be really hard to enjoy the game
― Mordy, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=7793
it's like, um, silent skiFree hill
― thompp, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
would love to play this. mac tho :(
― Mordy, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
wanthttp://www.theverge.com/2011/12/21/2648497/sony-playstation-vita-japan-review
― pandemic! I got that pandemic! (cccccc), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
cozen do you have a psp? & if so have you played trails in the sky?
― ice cræmde (є(٥_ ٥)э), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
never owned psp ;_;
― pandemic! I got that pandemic! (cccccc), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
trails in the sky you say?
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
vita + memory card + game = £300+yeh, not gonna bother for at least a year
― zappi, Wednesday, 21 December 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
btw, after getting TREMENDOUSLY burned by the 3ds i do not plan to early adopt any system again for at least another several years
― Dranke, the German Drake Impersonator (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 21 December 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link