Been playing Saints Row the third. It’s fun, but I find it lacking a certain polish which is evident in the gta series. Vehicle control is still a gripe for me. Nice character customisation though.
BF3 of course, I’m lame at it but I’m realising the damage system is so much better than BC2.
Anyone on Assassin’s Creed Revelations? I’ve been thinking of getting it but I’ve still to complete Brotherhood, I kind of ran out of steam with it. I don’t like the sound of Den Defence.
SKYRIM
also MTG on 360 was half-off for Black Friday + I picked it up
Den Defense is the fucking worst thing to happen to Assassin’s Creed. Followed up in short order by the Desmond wanna-be Portal bullshit segments (of which I finished one and, after doing most of the second, won’t bother doing any more of them).
It’s the worst ACII, despite further refinements in Assassin recruiting/advancement and some great kill moves in combat. I’m going to finish it for the story, but I’m worried about what they might do with ACIII when it comes along.
Had to take a Skyrim break, but am looking forward to returning to it when Revelations is done and back in the box for good.
the Skyrim frost troll pissed me off so much I had to go back and do riddles in Arkham City
still playing Dark Souls—have rung both bells, no clear objective atm though which is making things a bit aimless
Mario 3D Land is a complete joy, especially playing as Luigi in his cute fox suit
tried to play metal gear solid 3 and just can’t do it. maybe i’m playing the game wrong, but it was basically ‘try to find a stealthy path > get discovered > suicide > repeat’ ad naseum. plus the clumsy controls and endless (admittedly hilarious) dialogue.
so i downloaded resident evil 4 and it is delicious video game comfort food.
still playing skyrim, although i haven’t had a chance to play since last Wednesday.
also, i posted this on facebook/ILX, but some of you might find this journal article about working conditions in the videogame industry interesting:
http://www.cjc-online.ca/index.php/journal/article/viewArticle/1771/1893
the abstract makes it sound dull as hell, but it’s actually an easy read
love skyrim and all but SPACE MARINE is goty for sure
SPACE MARINE multiplayer rules because it is slow and kind of forgiving so people who are bad at video games ie me can partake in SPACE MARINE clunking around and chainswording fun
i believe that ppl who are enjoying space marine have never played gears of war
I would be going out and buying Skyward Sword for myself but my sister is probably asking for it for chanukah so I have to wait a month
i played gears of war and it is probably better i guess? except for all the racist stuff and that all the pleasing aesthetics are straight up 40k ripoffs. also in gears of war there are not enough orks yelling SPACE MARINE over and over all the time
Tons of Skyrim, but taking breaks with de blob 2 which was on sale at target for like 13$ and is so far kind of awesome actually
Tonnes of cobblestone in Minecraft 1.0.0
Finally getting to GTA IV, which is kind of how I roll these days: I made a note yesterday that there have been lots of Assassin’s Creed games, so I should get them in four years when they’re on “all of them for $4.99” sale* and walkthrough the lot.
I imagine I’m not the first person to point this out, but GTA IV is far too realistic in many ways—they’ve clearly executed on their vision, but at the price of much in the way of fun. In fact my two main emotions when playing it are guilt when someone bounces off my can in a particularly crippling manner, and, er, more guilt when I don’t answer the phone to someone.
I pressed a button one too many times when exiting out of a menu on a date with Kate, and gave her a nasty shove that dropped her ‘like’ by 45%. I was devastated, and would have reloaded except that I had done lots of pigeon-shooting and stump-jumping since my last save, so fuck that.
<a href=“http://oglaf.com/sircoffee/”;>Oglaf has the gist of it</a>
*such as happened for all yes all of the GTA games on Steam over the weekend!
Haha I am an idiot.
you can bounce ppl off yr ass in GTA IV?
yep, just hold L2 and then tap b (for butt) twice
What level are you guys in Skyrim?
I seem to be finding that one hour of gameplay = one level, more or less
i’m only at 11
14 iirc
i started playing friday, at 11 by now i think
so... skyward sword. worth buying?
uh Im level 41 in skyrim.. the game is a fucking full time job.. I kinda feel like I cheated boosting my smithing up to 100 by creating hundreds of iron daggers but goddamnit it was the easiest way.
xp a quick glance at metacritic suggests universal acclaim…does that have any validity? who knows. There’s some “best Zelda since OoT” being thrown around. Havent’ gone and looked at SelectButton threads or anything. All i know is I want to play it.
infinity blade is eating my life
secretly glad that skyrim isn’t available for macs
also there is some tarted up version of cave story out now??
I think it’s the same as the WiiWare version basically.
“Best since OoT” doesn’t make any sense, as Mask of Majora was already better than it!
secretly glad that skyrim isn’t available for macs
it runs pretty well with the cider wrapper (windows emulation nerd stuff)
Best since “Link’s Awakening”
lol in Skyrim I am (wait for it...) level 4
this may be why the ice troll pwns me
hahahahha what the
I have been entertaining guests and playing Arkham City!
however in AC I’m at something like 70% complete
some of those Riddler puzzles are like “WHA-”
i think when i was getting pwned by ice troll i was uh level 10?
so
u doing it rong
hahaha
so basically I should go do some side quests
yeah dude
that kind of goes against the whole “zomg URGENT SUMMONS” thing in the main storyline but hey
I did kind of do a side quest by accident tho (the dragonstone one, while getting back THE CLAW for the shopkeeper with the gullible sister)
yeah i did some of the companions quests and some random bandit mines and dungeons and whatever before going for the ice troll—i am finding a fairly good flow in realizing that if the main storyline = getting pwned, i need to go level a bunch.
yeah, lots of skyrim here too. wonderful game so far.
Damnit I would love to try me some skyrim shit(*) I just don’t want it to eat my life.
(*)nb have not played an rpg since moria/larn/nethack back in school.
or maybe i should try SPACE MARINE since space > dragons (only just). or maybe i should try gears of war since apparently it is better. see? it’s just too hard.
space is not > dragons!
does anyone have an opinion on http://www.dinodday.com/? Tempted by THE AWESOMENESS OF NAZI!!! DINOSAURS!!! but the reviews are shitty.
@ ledge I can’t play any new games since my Nethack + ADOM phase. Everything feels so sloow, “oh, I have to walk all the way over there?”
I got caught up in wandering and sidequests; I was level 19 before I met the frost troll and was unimpressed.
I did play and love RDR, galloping around, shooting wild beasts, sidequests, just dickin’ around in the desert. it’s more the statscock aspect of rpgs that puts me off. and the lifesuck.
I thought I might ask some recommendations here... I just finished playing Jade Empire, and I’m kinda looking for something similar to tackle next. It should be an action RPG (no turn-based stuff) or action adventure, with an intriguing plot and the ability to affect the storyline with your actions. Preferably fantasy, though sci-fi is okay too, but nothing too realistic. And it shouldn’t be too nihilistic either, I like games where you can choose not to kill if you don’t have to. Can you recommend anything along these lines? Oh, and it should preferably be something a few years old, I’m not sure if my computer can handle really recent games.
And it should obviously be on PC, I don’t own any consoles.
Mass Effect?
Having never played any of the Bioware classic run of D&D RPGs (Baldur’s Gate, Planescape, Icewind Dale), I bought the compilation DVD. I don’t own a PC. I’m saving them for any future stretch of invalidity.
okay I haven’t finished Mass Effect but somehow I am thinking it fails the “choose not to kill” and “not too nihilistic” criteria
Btw, I didn’t mean you can go through the whole game without killing, I liked the fighting system in Jade Empire. But I also liked how you could solve many of the sidequests by either fighting, or with your wits/empathy.
i don’t think Mass Effect is too nihilistic. there’s obviously mandatory combat sections but there are some pretty serious moral choices you are given the opportunity to make.
Maybe try Deus Ex, Toumas? (The original, not the new one.) I think you can play most of that game without killing anyone?
Also maybe Morrowind which also has very limited killing and is of course a classic.
If you don’t mind dated graphics, Bethesda released Daggerfall for free online and it is still a total classic. Betrayal of Krondor is also free floating out there.
try SPACE MARINE for its touching story of friendship through adversity and chainsaw swords
as far as antinihilism goes i’ve been playing a lot of ultima 7, where if you steal stuff the other people in your party get mad at you and leave
betrayal at krondor is a straight masterpiece for at least half of its duration (especially CHAPTER 3: THE SPYGLASS AND THE SPIDER) but the combat is turn-based.
but yeah if you’ve never played deus ex the answer is deus ex because there almost aren’t any better games than deus ex.
you only have to kill one person in deus ex and don’t worry you’ll want to.
do I buy CoD MW3 or BF3?
I fucking love bf3 but playing with friends makes it so much more satisfying. If youre more of a lone wolf mw3 might be better..
I’m playing mass effect now, it’s great. Excited that I’ll be able to import my character into Mass Effect 2.
mw3 kind of sucks. ive not played it in about a week. the maps are shitty. the singeplayer, if you care about that, lasts something like 4 or 5 hours.
maybe the most obvious answer if u really liked jade empire is kotor
^^^
^^^
plus, kotor is better than jade, imo
i’ve been playing a lot of ultima 7
hats off. although i keep trying to play it i just can’t get the blasted thing to load. not even on the dos box.
oh yeah it would be totally impossible if not for http://exult.sourceforge.net/
which means i’m playing the game natively in linux which is a rare treat
Playing Lemonade Tycoon on the phone. Once you figure out the recipe, everything else is easy.
hey so i wanna add ppl to my gaming center on iphone so i can compete in temple run against you guys — friend me, my nick is “mordys”
Ticket To Ride! On IPAD. It is the best.
Somehow stumbled back into playing Tiny Wings on my new phone, it really does tread the fine line between “just one more go” and “DIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE YOU FUCKING CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTTTT”
Seconding Deus Ex for Tuomas. Also, I remember quite enjoying Outcast many years ago.
Played all three Gears of War over a month, way too much murdery fun. Didn’t even notice I was essentially killing the same dude over and over again. Now I am playing through Half Life 2 and the HL2 Episodes again for some reason.
deus ex deus ex deus ex
If you can get past the slightly frustrating first mission it’s great. And if you’re doing a no kill run the first mission is good for practicing that anyway. It’s a less than 10 minute download from Steam and works with no problems on my Win7/64 PC with crappy integrated graphics. Just get the original by itself and don’t bother with Invisibubble War as it’s crap.
Non stop skyrim for me too, according to raptr I’ve clocked up 43 hours now (somehow! Lots has been 10 minute blasts snatched here and there) and I’m up to I think level 22? The fact levelling only happens when you’re actively DOING STUFF means it can be pretty easy to spend a lot of time just wandering or exploring or doing fetch quests without seeing any level increase at all (but then clearing a couple of dungeons or spending 20 minutes forging and enchanting can bump it up by 2 or 3 pretty quickly). Patch today but it sounds like the things it breaks are more major than the things it’s fixed.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-11-30-skyrim-patch-1-2-has-resistance-breaking-bug
skyrim u eating my soul.
its great though, love the fact that you cant just cruise in it ever but there is still a decided progression (ie i no longer run like a child from bears when they pop up). but man even now every so often some novice conjourer will give me a smackdown because im not paying attention, so it never feels easy. way better balanced than fo3 or nv, where at a certain point you are just unstoppable. lockpicking in this is also way way more challenging. speaking of which i need to figure out where to buy a ton of lockpicks.
i am level 18 and in the labyrinthine or whatever and holy shit lol dungeon is hueg
i have like a million things to say about skyrim but i don’t want my pearls lost to the sandbox of time.
it rules but as always minor things are bugging me. why you can’t DEFEND while dual-wielding is just criminal
can i just say re skyrim that tom bissell is kinda a moron?
the grantland piece u mean? yeah seems like a lot of legwork to say “the dialogue is pretty bad”
the “no defending while dual-wielding” thing got me killed multiple times as I was running around with an axe in one hand and balls of flames in the other
~ remap shouts to the d-pad or R3
~ RB is defend in all cases
bethesda do you hear me
re: badness of dialogue, i do kind of wonder when this will improve. even top-tier character driven games like rockstar’s have woeful speechifying by any standard. post-writers’ strike you’d think there’d be resources enough to bring in some “real” writers to polish things up or give things a little zip. as i understand it, the writing is up to the directors (right?). i wonder if any division of labor in this will ever happen. if the audience doesn’t measurably care then probably not, i guess.
I thought the dialog in both Arkham games was outstanding
reading that thing made me imagine a huge open-world game like skyrim where you’re a ghost and so can’t directly interact with other characters and it’s all about exploration and maybe you can move objects which can become an indirect mode of communication/influence. i would play it, talking in video games does pretty much always suck.
it ought to be convention to make your selections indicative and not quotation i.e. [ask to buy something] and not “hey, what do you have?”
a lot of games have a problem where you’re given sarcastic options and it turns out they weren’t meant that way (or v—v)
it ought to be convention to make your selections indicative and not quotation i.e. [ask to buy something] and not “hey, what do you have?”
this is why conversation in Mass Effect is so good
a lot of games have a problem where you’re given sarcastic options and it turns out they weren’t meant that way (or v—v)
sometimes i wonder if this is a social skills issue where ppl writing the dialogue aren’t very attuned to the way ppl talk + how things sound. i can’t think of a specific example off-hand, but numerous times I’ve been playing a game and heard or said a piece of dialogue that was just totally aspie.
i.e. HIRE A WRITER
lol I was trying to think of a good example of this and the first thing that came to mind was GLaDOS, which is pretty much the exact opposite of what you’re talking about
anyone who’s still playing glitch, did you hear they’re putting the game back into beta to improve it? i was about ten minutes from canceling my subscription out of boredom, so that’s cool. they also added some skills, but i’ve been on my phone and haven’t seen ’em yet.
40 hours on skyrim guys and i still wanna call in sick every morning
skyrimmmmmmm
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
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
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
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.
^ love this guy. always end up dying comical deaths due to total unreliability tho
totally. have a similar relationship w/the bazooka guys.
^ ‘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
ffffffffffuuuuuuu
macbook pro why u suck for gaming & braek heart
lol macs
gaming (and brokedness) is the only reason I have a pc desktop.
wellll that and not wanting to be a bad person but im sure theres a real ilx thread for this argument
i feel like i should be nervous about this wrapped bootleg (viruses? HACKERS???), but it’s running so smoothly that i’m just going to hum a happy tune and ignore it
ok im going to give it another couple hours tonight but the first hour or so of dead island def doesnt kick you into high gear—as a dude who loves the sorta not right in the head games i feel like theres maybe something great in there, but its pretty yawnworthy so far—pro tip designers, starting out the game with a totally in comprehensible cut scene and then a whole lot of suitcase looting w/o combat or action is def NAGL for the modern era. also i HATE HATE HATE the 4 characters you get to choose from.
Yeah so dead island is pretty much terrible :(
skyrim is eating my life. thank god I’m on vacation
so im thinking about getting an xbox 360 and im wondering if the 4GB model is enough? im mainly planning on using it to play current gen games but also XBLA stuff like ikaruga, radiant silvergun, bangai-o, etc. dont really plan on downloading movies or any other media. will i regret it if i dont get more HD space? is the HD easily upgradable?
some of those xbla games can be pretty big (radiant is about 500m iirc) and they go upto about 1GB; a lot of xbox games run more smoothly when installed to the HDD too (about 6GB installation)
you don’t necessarily have to get the 250GB tho because you can use USB sticks as memory (limited to 16GB sticks)
i would get the 250, i install most of my games on my 360 too.
i regretted not getting the larger ps3, i have to keep deleting games to make room.
Apple’s “12 days” freebie today is that sonic kart racing thing, haven’t tried it yet but it reviewed pretty well, probably worth grabbing.
def interested in corpse party for the psp:
http://www.destructoid.com/review-corpse-party-218252.phtml
looks like some kind of jrpg/visual novel/survival horror/battle royale hybrid which is right up my alley tbqh
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 :/
xpost
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...?
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 :(
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
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.