I don't mind the taking a long ass time on Ep 3 so much as the complete lack of any noise about it at all :P Valve doesn't seem to like to release something unless they are doing something new with the tech - maybe they're having a hard time figuring out what they want to add at this point?
Oh man, Fate of the World is great. Took three tries to beat the first (African) scenario, then was doing pretty well on the second until India kicked me out (didn't hire agents there for too long, so they were already on pretty bad terms).
All the win conditions were pretty much set (HDI over 0.7 in everything, oil production well above the required minimum)... until India reopened to me two turns before the deadline, with a 0.4 HDI.
Oh man, Fate of the World is great. Took three tries to beat the first (African) scenario, then was doing pretty well on the second until India kicked me out (didn't hire agents there for too long, so they were already on pretty bad terms).
All the win conditions were pretty much set (HDI over 0.7 in everything, oil production well above the required minimum)... until India reopened to me two turns before the deadline, with a 0.4 HDI.
My initial expansion of HDI is "human death index". This is both morbid and terribly funny.
Oh man, Fate of the World is great. Took three tries to beat the first (African) scenario, then was doing pretty well on the second until India kicked me out (didn't hire agents there for too long, so they were already on pretty bad terms).
All the win conditions were pretty much set (HDI over 0.7 in everything, oil production well above the required minimum)... until India reopened to me two turns before the deadline, with a 0.4 HDI.
My initial expansion of HDI is "human death index". This is both morbid and terribly funny.
Oh man, Fate of the World is great. Took three tries to beat the first (African) scenario, then was doing pretty well on the second until India kicked me out (didn't hire agents there for too long, so they were already on pretty bad terms).
All the win conditions were pretty much set (HDI over 0.7 in everything, oil production well above the required minimum)... until India reopened to me two turns before the deadline, with a 0.4 HDI.
My initial expansion of HDI is "human death index". This is both morbid and terribly funny.
What does it actually stand for?
Human Development Index. It was a win condition (well, a "lose condition" where if you don't meet or beat it by the specified date, you lose) in the two campaigns I tried so far.
In retrospect I probably spent too much time actually trying to counteract climate change and all the disasters it brought instead of actually trying to meet the scenario goals. It's kind of a funny disconnect between the role you're supposed (or at least, I expected) to be playing and the actual game objectives.
Oh man, Fate of the World is great. Took three tries to beat the first (African) scenario, then was doing pretty well on the second until India kicked me out (didn't hire agents there for too long, so they were already on pretty bad terms).
All the win conditions were pretty much set (HDI over 0.7 in everything, oil production well above the required minimum)... until India reopened to me two turns before the deadline, with a 0.4 HDI.
My initial expansion of HDI is "human death index". This is both morbid and terribly funny.
So, in other digital distribution news, today's daily sale on Direct2Drive is, as expected, Bulletstorm for 50% off.
The weekend 25% off "bunny" code stacks on top of this to bring the cost down to $22.49 (plus tax for some of us geographically unfortunate folks).
I'm tempted since I enjoyed the demo, but something makes me feel that Bulletstorm is going to join Just Cause 2 and Metro 2033 in the "suddenly on sale for under $10 every other week" club sooner rather than later.
So, in other digital distribution news, today's daily sale on Direct2Drive is, as expected, Bulletstorm for 50% off.
The weekend 25% off "bunny" code stacks on top of this to bring the cost down to $22.49 (plus tax for some of us geographically unfortunate folks).
I'm tempted since I enjoyed the demo, but something makes me feel that Bulletstorm is going to join Just Cause 2 and Metro 2033 in the "suddenly on sale for under $10 every other week" club sooner rather than later.
I bought the full game a couple of weeks ago after having tried the demo. I don't regret it at all, despite having paid full price for it. I had a blast playing through it. Although I stopped after having gotten three stars on every level, the score attack mode is good too.
The multiplayer mode is neat, but there's no text chat and the voice chat is the absolutely awful sounding GFWL.
Oh man, Fate of the World is great. Took three tries to beat the first (African) scenario, then was doing pretty well on the second until India kicked me out (didn't hire agents there for too long, so they were already on pretty bad terms).
All the win conditions were pretty much set (HDI over 0.7 in everything, oil production well above the required minimum)... until India reopened to me two turns before the deadline, with a 0.4 HDI.
My initial expansion of HDI is "human death index". This is both morbid and terribly funny.
Got the HDI on Africa and Middle East to over 0.7, but damn India refused to get better. Best I did was get them to 0.6 and that was after they jumped from 0.46 to that from one turn to another.
Need to find a way to offload more Tech support to them or something.
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Man I can't believe the original Half-Life is still ten bucks
I don't want to pay ten bucks for a game I've owned since before Steam existed ffffff
Why would you need to pay for a game you own?
Do they not let you redeem HL keys anymore?
It is in another city and I have no idea where it is actually located in that house
And I loaned it to a friend of mine when I was in like sixth grade and I'm pretty sure he put it on his steam account all those years ago.
While I don't have HL1 or HL1:Source to give out, I do have Blue Shift if you want that?
INeedNoSalt, I have both HL and HL:S if you want either of them. Just shoot Rienen a Steam request. Or PM me an email to shoot both or one of them off to.
You guys are lovely. I'll toss out a PM to you, Decoy.
I played Blue Shift at some point eons ago and don't remember liking it much but I appreciate the offer Icemopper!
I suppose I should make up for this generosity by offering you guys my two copies of Plain Sight if either of you are interested ... it's a fun little game if people are still playing it.
As much as there are a lot of awesome games coming out this year, Deus Ex really is my big hope.
Everything they've shown and the previews I've read suggest it to be a proper sequel in spirit to the first game and I really don't want to be disappointed.
This is going to be an amazing year for PC gaming. Portal 2, Rage, Skyrim, Torchlight 2, and quite likely Diablo 3.
Most of those are multiplatform anyway aren't they?
The first three, but I couldn't imagine playing any of them anywhere but the PC. Portal is made for mouse aiming, Rage is a graphical powerhouse that won't look its best on anything less, and Skyrim's appeal is going to be at least half in the mods.
and I've just order myself a shiny new Peeeee Seeeeeee.
Squeeeeeee!
Hi5! I built mine a little while ago, bout 2 months maybe. Still need a graphics card but it is fantastic. Games are so cheap! (And I buy more of them so it all balances out)
I kind of pushed the boat out a bit, since I've basically got more disposable income than I've ever had before right now, and since I spend so much time on my PC it's worth getting a good one.
Paid £1300. Got:
2.66ghz i7
16gb of ram
2x5870.
256gb SSD.
Tis an alienware. Wouldn't have paid their normal (ridiculous) prices, but I got it from the dell outlet. That means I didn't get to pick out all the components myself (seriously, who needs 16gb of ram?) but I got it at a heavy discount. List price would have been over £2k, and building a simialar spec pc myself would have cost a bit more too.
I kind of pushed the boat out a bit, since I've basically got more disposable income than I've ever had before right now, and since I spend so much time on my PC it's worth getting a good one.
Paid £1300. Got:
2.66ghz i7
16gb of ram
2x5870.
256gb SSD.
Tis an alienware. Wouldn't have paid their normal (ridiculous) prices, but I got it from the dell outlet. That means I didn't get to pick out all the components myself (seriously, who needs 16gb of ram?) but I got it at a heavy discount. List price would have been over £2k, and building a simialar spec pc myself would have cost a bit more too.
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The answer is: none.
Having not played the game for months before this... I completely forgot about this. Now I'm using it a lot.
I am a freaking nerd.
All the win conditions were pretty much set (HDI over 0.7 in everything, oil production well above the required minimum)... until India reopened to me two turns before the deadline, with a 0.4 HDI.
It only needed activated once on my laptop.
My initial expansion of HDI is "human death index". This is both morbid and terribly funny.
What does it actually stand for?
To be fair its not like haven't been putting work into it http://steamcommunity.com/groups/bms
It's the human development index.
Human Development Index. It was a win condition (well, a "lose condition" where if you don't meet or beat it by the specified date, you lose) in the two campaigns I tried so far.
In retrospect I probably spent too much time actually trying to counteract climate change and all the disasters it brought instead of actually trying to meet the scenario goals. It's kind of a funny disconnect between the role you're supposed (or at least, I expected) to be playing and the actual game objectives.
EDIT: beaten in way less words.
Ah, that would make more sense
new idea: mod Fate of the World to allow scenarios in which players run SkyNet and other apocalyptic organizations.
ALWAYS.
The weekend 25% off "bunny" code stacks on top of this to bring the cost down to $22.49 (plus tax for some of us geographically unfortunate folks).
I'm tempted since I enjoyed the demo, but something makes me feel that Bulletstorm is going to join Just Cause 2 and Metro 2033 in the "suddenly on sale for under $10 every other week" club sooner rather than later.
I bought the full game a couple of weeks ago after having tried the demo. I don't regret it at all, despite having paid full price for it. I had a blast playing through it. Although I stopped after having gotten three stars on every level, the score attack mode is good too.
The multiplayer mode is neat, but there's no text chat and the voice chat is the absolutely awful sounding GFWL.
I read this not as "for future reference" but "in the year 2033" and it was much funnier until I realized what was going on.
I'm stuck on that one, actually.
Got the HDI on Africa and Middle East to over 0.7, but damn India refused to get better. Best I did was get them to 0.6 and that was after they jumped from 0.46 to that from one turn to another.
Need to find a way to offload more Tech support to them or something.
You guys are lovely. I'll toss out a PM to you, Decoy.
I played Blue Shift at some point eons ago and don't remember liking it much but I appreciate the offer Icemopper!
I suppose I should make up for this generosity by offering you guys my two copies of Plain Sight if either of you are interested ... it's a fun little game if people are still playing it.
I still can't believe that crysis mechwarrior mod actually came out
Most of those are multiplatform anyway aren't they?
But yeah, I agree.
There's also The Witcher 2. And DOTA 2. And Red Orchestra 2. And Battlefield 3. And Mass Effect 3. And Deus Ex 3.
This is shaping up to be a pretty nutty year again.
Everything they've shown and the previews I've read suggest it to be a proper sequel in spirit to the first game and I really don't want to be disappointed.
Squeeeeeee!
Seriously, so many awesome games, why do they have to clump up so?
EDIT: I take it you got a good deal on that? :P
The first three, but I couldn't imagine playing any of them anywhere but the PC. Portal is made for mouse aiming, Rage is a graphical powerhouse that won't look its best on anything less, and Skyrim's appeal is going to be at least half in the mods.
Otherwise my wallet will murder me in my sleep.
I thought we were talking about PC games here :P
Skyrim is already my GOTY. There is no way that it won't be. Love me some Elder Scrolls.
XBL Gamertag: weeskwee
PSN: weeskwee
Really?
Did you ... did you play Oblivion?
Hi5! I built mine a little while ago, bout 2 months maybe. Still need a graphics card but it is fantastic. Games are so cheap! (And I buy more of them so it all balances out)
Still - seems to be doing fine for now. Witcher might require some overclocking though
edit: apparently the model is almost 5 years old now
I kind of pushed the boat out a bit, since I've basically got more disposable income than I've ever had before right now, and since I spend so much time on my PC it's worth getting a good one.
Paid £1300. Got:
2.66ghz i7
16gb of ram
2x5870.
256gb SSD.
Tis an alienware. Wouldn't have paid their normal (ridiculous) prices, but I got it from the dell outlet. That means I didn't get to pick out all the components myself (seriously, who needs 16gb of ram?) but I got it at a heavy discount. List price would have been over £2k, and building a simialar spec pc myself would have cost a bit more too.
Arrives on the 6th, can't wait.
How can you forget The Old Republic? That and Diablo 3 will keep me up for days.
: macg1991
Check out the Penny Arcade World of Tanks thread to join us in some fun times.
jesus christ man that's so much excessiveness
Edit: and plan to pay for it by doing a bit more writing for a certain PC games web site that offers me money in exchange for words.