Hey let's catch up on some video gaming in the sandbox

with all the new names post-sandbox i can't tell who's canx trollin and who's just a prick

Seconded. If trolling; lol, if not; what a fucking prick.

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.

just a few hours until ...

http://i.imgur.com/15xJZ.png

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>

Finished la noire and started Mass Effect 2. I tried being more renegade instead of paragon, but I started to feel bad about it.

oh man another steam sale? how will they take my money from me this time?

Sale's on! Server's overloaded and poxy-fuling everyone!

What looks good?

Can't tell yet.

radiant historia is p fun and less boring than skyrimmmm

Portal 2 is only 7.50

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).

Honestly, I'll get the hang of this one day

is that Warner Bros pack for real? am i missing something here, it looks like an absolute steal

i would buy so many of those titles at those prices if they ran on a mac

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

That looks more interesting than Diablo 3 at this point.

been playing lara croft: gol.... great game!

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)

hey wait there's a pack of the x-com games on there that run on modern computers? well, there goes my vacation

Bastion is 50% off on Xbox live today fyi

great game. highly recommend everyone get it

Finally Tropico 4 on sale, grabbing it today.

Bastion is 50% off on Xbox live today fyi

will be pissed if that's not still the case when i get back this evening.

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?

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...

so i just got a PS3 and some games as a christmas bonus!

congrats! get WipeoutHD ASAP

Woohoo! Nice bonus.

hmmm

bastion

why wont this dude shut the fuck up

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?

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

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*

The narrator in the demo turned me off so much that I never even considered buying that game.

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.

the soundtrack is pretty too. and the mechanics are fun.

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

http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-22/?action=preview&uid=7793

it's like, um, silent skiFree hill

would love to play this. mac tho :(

want
http://www.theverge.com/2011/12/21/2648497/sony-playstation-vita-japan-review

cozen do you have a psp? & if so have you played trails in the sky?

never owned psp ;_;

trails in the sky you say?

vita + memory card + game = £300+
yeh, not gonna bother for at least a year

btw, after getting TREMENDOUSLY burned by the 3ds i do not plan to early adopt any system again for at least another several years

hahahah so otm

Psp is still a great emulator rig, worth your time.

shoutout to antexit for giving me his broken and easily fixed psp btw
it still gets love around the house

trails in the sky you say?

im sayin