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

dark souls is goty

dark souls BULLETSTORM is goty

also best buy was out of both games i was going to buy so decision was made for me

lol i read BULLETSTORM as BONESTORM

@Mordy the pleasure of bullet hell games is in the learning curve! A good shmup will have an easy mode do not be ashamed. I'm still casually playing Radiant Silverfun once a week on easy mode and getting further and further.

Today I played Pirates on my bf's iPad for five hours. I aligned with Holland, attacked and converted every Port in the game to the Dutch cause. Felt bad for the Spanish at first, but then they put a 130,000 price on my head.

I watched my brother play Skyward Sword, it looked garish.

I watched two hours of Dark Souls a month ago and it looked unnecessarily difficult and unrewarding, but I'm a rogue-like purist

That is: I like fast keystrokes, strategy, and decisive outcomes. I dont like watching an undead 3D model in an evening gown run awkwardly down hallways for hours at a time for a fleeting external environment money shot

got bulletstorm on order as it happens（；￣ェ￣）

Guys, I'm playing Rage for some reason.

This is probably as close to a GTA-style remake of Autoduel as I'll ever get.

I dont like watching an undead 3D model in an evening gown run awkwardly down hallways for hours at a time for a fleeting external environment money shot

what game is this a reference to?

last year at marienbad HD

^^Nice!

omg Mordy lol of the year right under the wire

Playing thru Venture Towns just to unlock everything. Once I do that, Kairosoft games lose their appeal for me.

Played terraria last night just to test it out and see if it's worth the dosh.

What'd you think? I really enjoyed Terraria. Side scrolling cartoony Minecraft.

Looooooool

I meant Dark Souls and sorry for snark I couldn't sleep last night.

Was going to buy Bastion in yesterday's Steam sale but the demo wouldn't run playably even on my desktop, and I prefer to play games on my laptop anyway. What has the world come to when my computer is too weedy to play an isometric arcade-RPG?

So I bought Terraria instead seeing as it is £1.49 on UK Steam today. Have only given it a quick go but seems fun so far.

playing catherine rn, its p good

also: http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-best-games-of-2011,67003/

Maybe but I think with these sandbox games you pretty quickly get a sense of whether or not it's gonna be a place where you wanna hang out and spend some time. And maybe just hanging out and spending time might not be what you want out of a game right now.

big hefty ledge of a truth bomb here.

in between painting i still been BF3ing, managed to get my first few ribbons for MVP over the past few days. loving the new maps.

Anybody want free copies of Half-Life 2 and Episode 1? I just noticed that I somehow still have these in my Steam inventory.

yes plz O:)

i as well; never got them for pc.
steam name is same as ilx name

Can we talk about the Ocean Marketing Strategy debacle because

http://kotaku.com/5871400/cut-paul-oceanmarketting-christoforo-a-breakhe-probably-just-has-roid-rage

I find this all very amusing.

You just got told bitch . welcome to the real internet check kotaku in 2 weeks when they are reviewing free PS3 Avengers we send them as well as G4 and all the other majors hell yeah , don.t forget to check Amazon, gamestop.com, play n trade , Myers , Frys and a ton of other local stores coming your way you think you speak for billions son your just a kid you speak for yourself no one cares what you think that.s why were growing and moving 20-50 thousand controllers a month. We do value our customers but sometimes we get children like you we just have to put you in the corner with your im stupid hat on. See you at CES , E3 , Pax East ..? Oh wait you have to ask mom and pa dukes your not an industry professional and you have no money on snap you just got told.

is there really such a huge market for very specialized controllers?

dude linked to this off HIS OWN TWITTER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqV9kx40RG0

whattamarooon

Oh, saints row the third, you are glorious and stupid

oof Vita getting stomped on during its launch in Japan - Vita Ambassador program incoming?

ended up at a mall on boxing day (canada's answer to black fri) b/c my gf needed to... buy smoothies for her sick brother (who may have gotten sick bc he drinks these ridic booster juices every day and missed a day or two). I realized there was an eb games in the mall so I popped in and the deals were insane but the lines was real slow so I browsed for 5m, picked up some games, and waited in line for 45m... BUT! I got Catherine, LA Noire, Darksiders, and 2 copies of no More heroes 2 (one for my little bro) for about $50 total all used). So stoked to get back to my gaming rigs and try them.

ok I am not getting on with the Terraria controls, the combination of moving around with keys but only being able to interact with the thing you've moved to by clicking the mouse, which does nothing else, is doing my head in

(disclaimer: i am on a laptop with an awkwardly positioned mousepad, but it seems weird anyway)

ok so i am prob going to go grab dead island tonight, but knowing me i will also walk out of the store with some other shit that is on sale/cheap. this is why i never finish games.

got myself BF3 for christmas

like skyrim and all but sometimes it just puts me to sleep

does anyone else think John Marston (Red Dead redemption) sounds like Bender (Futurama)?

also that Ocean Marketing Strategy tale his hilarious. i know people who talk their way into marketing gigs through pure bravado and bs and i hate them all.

FUCK YOU HAVEL YOU FUCKING FAT PRICK

holy shit you guys, I got a skyrim in a cider wrapper and it works perfectly

If it works perfectly then it can't be Skyrim.

Ok I can't speak to the game yet, but the intro to dead island is one of the most jarring things I've seen in games in a long while. That may not be a positive thing per se.

whats your rig river wolf

also that Ocean Marketing Strategy tale his hilarious.

Please, it's Ocean Marketting Stratagy...

(better get it right because he's bff's with the mayor of Boston, Crocodile Dundee, and the Wizard of Oz)

Terraria is worth purchasing. Wound up playing far too much of it last night.

stayed at a friend's and played various ps3 things i hadn't seen

arkham city has amazing combat but i wanted to skip everything except the fighting - detective stuff a chore, stealth always a chore, open world with nothing in it a chore. -- plot a total nonsense. if you're playing the goddamn batman the plot shouldn't depend on your being surprised and overwhelmed three times in the first ten minutes; this is narrative-breakingly bad. on the other hand this is the least of the narrative's problems so. i mean, it's really, really fucking stupid. this after batman movies have managed to claw themselves back to moderately not-dumb

deus ex i was awful at because i can't aim with thumbsticks and combining that with a cover system made me completely hopeless, so i just watched the first half hour and asked questions. enjoyed that the apparent major plot twist was obvious in the first two minutes. this game seemed stupider than the original, i must say. -- in the first one at least the immediate HEY CONSPIRACY HEY stuff has the benefit of being totally ott; here it's just lame third-hand cyberpunk, which not even adam jensen's subdermal mirrorshade implants manage to tip over into actually amusing camp

then we spent two hours trying to beat gain ground on one of those sega compilations

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gainground/gainground-genesis3.png

it's 2011 and gaming has yet to get any better than this

yea, p much. my sister and I try to beat gain ground every couple of years but always get overwhelmed towards the end.

viking guy rules btw.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gainground/verbal.jpg

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gainground/zaemon.jpg

^ love this guy. always end up dying comical deaths due to total unreliability tho

totally. have a similar relationship w/the bazooka guys.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gainground/kid.jpg

^ 'kid' is also p excellent. I'm into his little twirl move.

whats your rig river wolf

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2011 iMac 21"
2.7 GHz i5
12 GB RAM