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

what's the deal with ILG steam group, I just joined (I'm 'nerd' on steam) and seem to be the only member in the sea of admins :V

guys king cashing on iOS is free, addictive and terrible
please don't download and play it ALL DAY as i've been doing

Watching my kids play inFamous 2 - looks better than the first one which I really got into. Need to find time for it, dunno how :/

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i like this bit in the description of King Cashing in the app store:

Here's a little fact about the game: I got the idea while playing Kairosoft's Game Dev Story! At one point in the game, I made a game with the Slots RPG combination and that got me wondering what a real Slots RPG game would look like. So I dropped the game and started taking notes of what came to mind. I also drew some mockups to have a better idea of what I had in mind. 5 months later, here's King Cashing! So, hum, thanks Kairosoft!

king cashing is 2$, not free

thought about using a gift certificate to pick up a couple of older PC games that might actually run on my system; opted for an Earthbound ROM instead.

there's a lite version. i just spent about an hour playing it (lite), and i imagine that it's probably worth $2 for the full version.

anyone been doing the Steam Great Gift Pile? i got two average indie games and three worthless coupons.

it seems like a hell of a lot of work when i can just buy games i want for 99p

so... what games from 2009-2011 are ESSENTIAL for ilx user gukbe to play?

what XBOX games...?

yass; corpse party iOS
http://www.siliconera.com/2011/12/30/corpse-party-repeats-fear-on-iphone/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+siliconera%2FMkOc+%28Siliconera%29

sometime early in january i am going to look at all the crud i bought in the steam sale and think: why, lord, why

I bought the full king cashing and it is like a slot machine version of Dungeon Raid aka just what I wanted it to be.

Final verdict - dead island is a pile of shit, but was exchangeable for deus ex, so now I am trying that. What I really want is a used copy of el shaddai tho, but none at my GameStop :(

what XBOX games...?

Well, for 2009 and 2010 there's always:

http://cointandplick.wordpress.com

So I'm watching Oklahoma! on TCM and thinking -- what would video games have been like if we had the technology to make and play them in the 30s, 40s and 50s? Would we have had musical video games? (Freddy Farkas: Frontier Pharmacist, the Musical!) I think Roberta Williams should start work on this immediately.

king cashing was free for awhile i guess; twas when i got it. it is weirdly addictive.
um, i got a wireless xbox controller for my pc. The fucking thing doesn't come with button mapping. I don't wanna have to pay ten bucks for xpadder and not have it work; can anyone swear by it or help me figure a better solution?

I'm on steam as jay dee ess ay ell emm oh enn

Spacemen 3 userpic/icon, shouldn't be too hard to spot

you can use JoyToKey instead of xpadder, its free
http://www-en.jtksoft.net/
switch on controller before running the program
click the Preferences tab on the right and tick "use axes other than x and y" to activate 2nd thumbstick and "use pov switches" for dpad. change threshold to taste (30% a good starting point)
mapping instructions here http://www.instructables.com/id/Use-an-Xbox-360-controller-as-a-mouse/step4/JoyToKey-Basics/

let us know how you get on w/deus ex, PBBS

couldn't get past the loading times myself

Today I have played Binding of Isaac until my wrists hurt.

At one point I had wings, three eyes, a turd on my head and a little angry sneer after making a pact with the devil. I was delighted by each and every one of my adjustments. And then I got stamped on and died. Good times!

Thank you Mordy for your championing of this game and my consequent carpal tunnel syndrome.

Just bought BoI. Let's see what all the hubbub is about

Binding of Isaac totaly rules, but when played it quite intensively for a few days I had to take a break for a month now. It just got too repetitive and tiring.

Also I'm guessing that if there's one game you don't want to end up dreaming about...

Fun to try out, but I want to go live in Tropico as Presidente "Don Homer" for awhile.

Note that El Presidente currently favors the full luchador look. Disappointed that they couldnt get Juanito back from the last game, then again, I miss the original adviser voice from the first games.

Also, cute that they added objectives and Sim City-style policy advisors.

Binding was Isaac was fun to try out, I mean.

Thanks for the recommendation zappi; trying joy2key now.

on a mission to complete saints row 3, which i've now become quite enamoured of. its trash, and its tacky, and its morally blank, but it is quite fun. struggling to complete the assassinations, though, as i've yet to find any of smoov's 'hos' in the henry steel mills area - since most of the women in the game, including my own gang, are dressed as strippers and prostitutes, its kind of hard to figure out who is actually a prostitute.

GF was ill last night, so for kicks we half completed the MW3 campaign, hot-seating whenever one of us died. I think it might be the worst game I've ever played were the game does everything it sets out to do. Like, I've played games that were broken, or the controls were rubbish, or tyhe graphics were outdated or whatever, but this MW3's the worst game I've played where the badness is down to the lack of attention spent on level design and coherence. Maybe I've just been lucky and only played decent games.

the 'ungameness' of it has been a 'thing'

i have been playing the binding of isaac fairly intensively for the last few hours

oh my god, %75 off Portal 2 on Steam (€5.60)! and if you buy two P2's bundled it's €9.99, a lil bit cheaper

Last day. Picked up LA Noire and Arkham City.

snagged dungeon defenders and heroes of m+magic V, tempted by bastion but 360 controller still a little glitchy on pc

has anyone spent enough time with bastion or terraria to determine whether they're truly worth bothering with?

i beat both of them and enjoyed them both. terraria is sidescrolling Minecraft w/ not quests but kinda sequenced locations and stuff you can do. if you're really curious, i'd check out the game diaries quartertothree did about it, they give a great sense of what the game is like and whether you'd like it.

bastion i liked, more actionary platformy. the controls feel pretty great, the aesthetics are sorta unique + very colorful, nice soundtrack etc. threadbare story and shticky narration bit, but fun to play regardless

http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2011/06/23/terraria-the-adventures-of-sir-digsalot/

there's a whole bunch of them that go through the first 3 bosses (they have since added a 4th boss that unlocks a hardcore mode w/ new versions of first 3 bosses)

ha the best bit i had in the bastion demo was the so-epic narration of my hero getting up and noticing the changes wrought in the world around him being interrupted by "... and then he fell to his death" because i was looking to see if there were invisible walls

but it didn't really bring me any joy beyond that. how long is it? does anything particularly nifty happen? it was one of kieron gillen's games of the year so i'd have thought it did something or other, at some point

i think about 3 hours for your first playthrough. then there are challenge rooms + a new game plus feature

oh, it's short? that makes me about three to four times as likely to actually buy it, i think

yeah, i think i beat it in a night or two

Fucking Terraria, just give me the damn ore.

at any rate, Terraria is certainly worth the 75% knocked-off price it's currently running.

Finally tried out Portal 2. Finally seeing what everyone was yammering about this year. Curious how much britishness was written into Merchant's lines and how much he brought to it. Cool that Jay Pinkerton had a hand in writing the jokes.