40K Orkz are frequently described as "the football hooligans of the universe". It's a very fitting title. Everyone else has "Serious Business" reasons for their wars. Orkz just turn up for the fightin' inni?
Ork philosophy can basically be summed up as
Is we stompin'? No
Is we shootin'? No
Is we lootin'? No
Then you iz muckin about!
Ork machinery is always a cobbled-together mess of contraptions that looks as if it's just as likely to kill the user as it is the enemy. Which in Orky eyes is a "deffo win" anyway. That includes the aforementioned Stormboyz (literally Orkz with giant rockets strapped to their backs).
They aren't riding rockets, that would be stupid. They have cleverly strapped rockets to their backs as a means of getting somewhere very quickly whilst bypassing the traditional amount of time, money and effort it would take to construct a purpose built vehicle that may just get shot down in 3 minutes anyway.
I have come to the conclusion that every game should have Orks in it. Also, at the Air Force Association convention this month, my friends saw some New Zealand Air Force officers, and all I could think of was this scene, giggling.
I picked the worst time to stop playing too, I'll finish it, I promise.
Chaos has opened. But no more Orks so fuck 'em.
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Wait a minute. THQ published Stacking and Costume Quest on XBLA and PSN. Are DF self-releasing this like they did with Psychonauts? Double Fine is particular about most of their games being their own IPs. Perhaps it's in their contract that DF gets to self publish after some amount of time.
According to the steam page, yes they are listed as both developer and publisher for Stacking and Costume Quest.
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So I recently had to invest in a new graphics card as my ancient 8800GTX's heating issues spiraled out of control.
Reposting for a new page.
EDIT: I feel like an ass, it was pointed out to me that Mafia II is on sale on GMG for $7.50 right now. Oops! This is why I am not big into the trading scene.
Deus Ex HR is 7.50 over at Gamersgate. That, all the DLC, and the older games in the series are all 75 percent off. HR and its' DLC redeems on Steam, the others do not
Wait a minute. THQ published Stacking and Costume Quest on XBLA and PSN. Are DF self-releasing this like they did with Psychonauts? Double Fine is particular about most of their games being their own IPs. Perhaps it's in their contract that DF gets to self publish after some amount of time.
Back to SPESS MEHREEN, I really should finish the campaign. It's very good, it's just I've been busy. This part stands out. I don't know a lot about W40K, but this, being this ultra serious space marine fighting a bunch of orks with goggles, riding Looney Tunes esque rockets, I had to stop for a moment and think "is this really happening? Is this what Warhammer is all about?"
And I'm not sure if it's still canon, but apparently an Orks' willpower can literally make shit work that normally has no business working.
This is how terrible terrible arguments get started.
But also if they paint their rockets yellow, they make bigger explosions, and if they paint things red, they go faster. Argument is always how, between subconscious messaging, mass hysteria, group psychology and psychic paint.
Space orks are awesome.
I want a sequel to space marine, where you just play like 4-5 orks constantly running for your life away from 1 space marine chasing you down. Although that kind of turns into overlord and probably wouldn't be fun.
Wait a minute. THQ published Stacking and Costume Quest on XBLA and PSN. Are DF self-releasing this like they did with Psychonauts? Double Fine is particular about most of their games being their own IPs. Perhaps it's in their contract that DF gets to self publish after some amount of time.
According to the steam page, yes they are listed as both developer and publisher for Stacking and Costume Quest.
I think they had some financial help with getting it onto Steam from the CEO of XE.com. Giant Bomb did an article about him a few weeks ago. Seems like a cool guy.
40K Orkz are frequently described as "the football hooligans of the universe". It's a very fitting title. Everyone else has "Serious Business" reasons for their wars. Orkz just turn up for the fightin' inni?
Ork philosophy can basically be summed up as
Is we stompin'? No
Is we shootin'? No
Is we lootin'? No
Then you iz muckin about!
Ork machinery is always a cobbled-together mess of contraptions that looks as if it's just as likely to kill the user as it is the enemy. Which in Orky eyes is a "deffo win" anyway. That includes the aforementioned Stormboyz (literally Orkz with giant rockets strapped to their backs).
What an outrageously British, yet informative post.
For a second there I was thinking, "Isn't XE what the PMC Blackwater renamed themselves?" and that would be really weird and kind of awesome at the same time.
I was playing SPESS MAHREEN last night. I was trying to do the achievement where you have to do the first 4 parts of the game on hard without dying or reloading.
First off, fuck that criteria; at least you're allowed to pause it. Second, I got so close, then died. It rekindled my interest in the multilpayer though, and I jumped on and did a couple of exterminatus battles. I really wish you could do the multiplayer mission unlocks in those.
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I'm almost near the end of Baldur's Gate. It feels weird actually nearing completion of a game, especially one so big. Kind of wish I did more sidquests earlier. Determined to finish most of them but have far out levelled everything. Will easily be the longest game I've finished in a while.
Is Space Marine good? I got a brand spanking new computer thanks to a benefactor and now my gaming options are wide open. (Well... gotta still save up the money. ;P) Also opinions about Alan Wake would be great too. I'm hankering for some horror themed games.
Is Space Marine good? I got a brand spanking new computer thanks to a benefactor and now my gaming options are wide open. (Well... gotta still save up the money. ;P) Also opinions about Alan Wake would be great too. I'm hankering for some horror themed games.
It's decent enough. It gets a bit repetitive and the combat system is not at all deep as it pretends to be (it even has the presumption of including combo lists for individual weapons as more sophisticated brawlers like DMC does, but you'll notice every single combo string is exactly the same -- attack1 from 1-3 times finished by attack2). The story is dumb, predictable bullshit. Though, if you're a WH40K nerd, you'll probably enjoy it that much more.
The multiplayer is a messed-up lagfest on the best of days.
Is Space Marine good? I got a brand spanking new computer thanks to a benefactor and now my gaming options are wide open. (Well... gotta still save up the money. ;P) Also opinions about Alan Wake would be great too. I'm hankering for some horror themed games.
Alan Wake is OK but not great. Very pretty, and the environment design is great. The story and writing has a particular style which you may or may not enjoy: it's over the top King stuff, like how Max Payne was over the top Noir stuff.
On the other hand, the level design is pretty bland, it's basically just all corridors. The combat is pretty bland, enemies basically have armour and health, you need to use one weapon to lower armour before you use another to lower health. It's a decent concept but not enough to carry the whole game. There's no melee weapon, or anything with infinite uses, which means if you run out of ammo you're stuck. Which means they throw ammo at you before and after every fight, but strictly limit your max ammo. It feels like a very artificial and awkward way to create supply-related tension. Periodically they will take all your guns away and set you back to the starting weapons, so don't save up those shotgun rounds for too long. The collectables are silly and artificially lengthen game time. The story is perpetually vague and meaningless.
I recommend playing it, because it's enjoyable, but it's not like Vampire: the Masquerade earlier where the answer was "buy it buy it buy it no matter what".
Out of curiosity, is Crusader Kings worth buying? I've been on the fence about it, what's the general consensus?
Let me put it to you this way.
I'm working on becoming the ruling lord of all the British Isles, starting from Ireland (this is a pretty common start for new players, actually, because starting in backwater Ireland gives you a chance to learn the game without being overwhelmed; anyway ...).
About three generations ago, I goofed, and got my second-in-line-to-the-throne married matrilineally to a Castillian duchess (e.g., his kids with her will count as her family, not mine; if your family isn't in power, game over for you). My firstborn son ended up suffering a horrible shaving accident while hunting and also he choked on his dinner, making the second son my heir, and just a few in-game weeks later, I died, and took over as my son. At this point, if my son dies, it's game over for me, because my son's heir is his son with his Castillian wife. So, in order to prevent a game-over situation, I had to kill off my wife - which made my son inherit all her holdings - and then *him*, which made my character's Castillian daughter his heir - so *she* had to be shuffled off the mortal coil a little early, too. That, finally, cleared the inheritance chain for my character (and gave him some sweet holdings in former Castille and also two in France, of all places), giving him a chance to get married (normally, this time!) to a second wife, and hope to goodness that they managed to produce a kid before someone killed him.
Oh yeah, and right after I found the second wife, I realized he was gay, which drastically lowers your chance of having kids. For some reason.
Luckily, the new bride was Lustful (which makes her easier for the Pope to excommunicate), and they had a couple kids before the Gay King of Ireland bit the dust.
Thirty years later, I pulled the same trick in reverse to steal the northern almost-half of England from the English crown by marrying the Irish heir to an English woman who had, somehow, managed to inherit control of 4 major English duchies and a half-dozen unrelated counties, while having the Intrigue score of a frozen fish.
By bad marriage planning, I almost lost the game. By good marriage planning (and several thousand angry swordsmen), I've put myself 2 territories away from usurping the crowns of England and Scotland to add to my Irish and Welsh ones. Meanwhile, I've been expanding the Irish holdings in Spain at the cost of their Muslim overlords, spreading the Catholic faith to those benighted provinces, putting down the odd rebellion or three, and trying to figure out a way to convince France to break up into a dozen tiny pieces because, somehow, the French king got control of a barony in Barcelona and dammit that should be mine because Barcelona is mine you fool.
It's [one of] the most accessible long-form strategy game I've ever played, and while I have minor quibbles from time to time, it's some of the most fun I've had computer gaming in the past couple years. Even the missteps lead, in X-Com fashion, to entertaining stories.
Mark another game off the gamebank list! Assassin's Creed 2 is finally done. I swear most of the time playing it was spent watching the cut scenes. I do hope they let me skip them in Brotherhood and (the not-bought-yet-due-to-lack-of-funds) Revelations. I want to play through them all for the story, nutty goodness within. As whacky as it is, I do love it.
I was hoping someone else would say how excellent CK2 is because I feel like I'm telling everyone in this thread and chat to buy it and maybe I should take a break. But I also want to add a bit:
Playing as Spain, I assassinated the King of France about 3 times over 50 years, and all this instability of unready princes becoming king had led to a bunch of independence wars and torn the country up a bit. Making it a great time to claim the crown for my own.
The patient thing to do would be marry my son to a French princess. When he had kids, those kids would have a claim to the throne, and I could either press his claim and eventually inherit, or just wait until I was playing as him and press it myself.
Being impatient, I married my son to a French princess. When he had kids, I assassinated the princess, so her claim to the throne passed to the kid. I declared war on France, pressing my grandson's claim to the throne, so I could install him as King. When I won, I assassinated him, and since he was 0 years old he hadn't had kids, so the next in line was my son. I killed my son, who had no surviving kids so I was his heir, and thus managed to win the crown of France for myself.
Another story: One of my dukes was really powerful. I had a bunch of vassals under me, but held little land myself, and this guy was more powerful than me. If he called others to his cause he possibly could have ousted me. Also he hated me, so he was going to rebel eventually. If I just kill or imprison him, the next in line will inherit and I'll have the same problem. If I try to weaken him he'll instantly rebel. So instead, I make a diplomatic peace offer, marrying my son to one of his daughters. He had about 8 kids. I then killed his wife and all his other kids, so that his daughter was his only surviving relative, and waited for her to have a kid, leaving the duke himself alive and free for the time. Once she had a kid though, I killed her, and then finally, his bloodline wiped out, I killed the Duke. Everything he owned went to my son's child, and I slowly broke it up into smaller pieces so that no individual would ever have the strength to stand up to me again.
In case it's not obvious, I've been focusing on the Intrigue part of the game, assassinating my problems away, and it's worked amazingly.
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Man, i'm on a roll, 3 days ago, i beat Dungeons of Dredmore, this morning I beat Nimbus (God that game is hard, frustrating and so addictive!) and tomorrow i intend to beat Cthulhu Saves the World.
And I review all them games. I'm denting that sweet backlog o' mine.
Out of curiosity, is Crusader Kings worth buying? I've been on the fence about it, what's the general consensus?
Let me put it to you this way.
I'm working on becoming the ruling lord of all the British Isles, starting from Ireland (this is a pretty common start for new players, actually, because starting in backwater Ireland gives you a chance to learn the game without being overwhelmed; anyway ...).
About three generations ago, I goofed, and got my second-in-line-to-the-throne married matrilineally to a Castillian duchess (e.g., his kids with her will count as her family, not mine; if your family isn't in power, game over for you). My firstborn son ended up suffering a horrible shaving accident while hunting and also he choked on his dinner, making the second son my heir, and just a few in-game weeks later, I died, and took over as my son. At this point, if my son dies, it's game over for me, because my son's heir is his son with his Castillian wife. So, in order to prevent a game-over situation, I had to kill off my wife - which made my son inherit all her holdings - and then *him*, which made my character's Castillian daughter his heir - so *she* had to be shuffled off the mortal coil a little early, too. That, finally, cleared the inheritance chain for my character (and gave him some sweet holdings in former Castille and also two in France, of all places), giving him a chance to get married (normally, this time!) to a second wife, and hope to goodness that they managed to produce a kid before someone killed him.
Oh yeah, and right after I found the second wife, I realized he was gay, which drastically lowers your chance of having kids. For some reason.
Luckily, the new bride was Lustful (which makes her easier for the Pope to excommunicate), and they had a couple kids before the Gay King of Ireland bit the dust.
Thirty years later, I pulled the same trick in reverse to steal the northern almost-half of England from the English crown by marrying the Irish heir to an English woman who had, somehow, managed to inherit control of 4 major English duchies and a half-dozen unrelated counties, while having the Intrigue score of a frozen fish.
By bad marriage planning, I almost lost the game. By good marriage planning (and several thousand angry swordsmen), I've put myself 2 territories away from usurping the crowns of England and Scotland to add to my Irish and Welsh ones. Meanwhile, I've been expanding the Irish holdings in Spain at the cost of their Muslim overlords, spreading the Catholic faith to those benighted provinces, putting down the odd rebellion or three, and trying to figure out a way to convince France to break up into a dozen tiny pieces because, somehow, the French king got control of a barony in Barcelona and dammit that should be mine because Barcelona is mine you fool.
It's [one of] the most accessible long-form strategy game I've ever played, and while I have minor quibbles from time to time, it's some of the most fun I've had computer gaming in the past couple years. Even the missteps lead, in X-Com fashion, to entertaining stories.
My dearest Elvenshae,
Fuck you for this post. The game has been added to my Wishlist and is now in my thoughts more often than it should be. Having just watched the first season of "Game of Thrones" this game play really has me all a titter. May you rot in hell.
Speaking of GOT like games, have been playing Knights of Honor. Despite Honor being in the title, the best things in the game are the spy/sabotage things. You can have your spy get hired to lead an enemy army and just disband it. You can have your spy talk countries into fighting each other. You can have them talk a king into attacking YOU so that it makes them look like they are aggressive assholes and you claimed all their land because you were defending yourself. You can even, manuever your spy to become the Pope and call out crusades, excommunicate nations, etc. Great overlooked little game.
At one point in my game, I got an event wherein the Barons of a territory I controlled were asking for Primae Noctis rights. I had the option of allowing it, which made them happier and increased the peasant revolt risk, or disallowing it, which pissed them off (but didn't really make the peasants much happier, IIRC).
I said "No," because fuck the barons, and I don't want to deal with William Wallace in my backfield when I've got continually revolting Muslims in the south of Spain to deal with.
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Ork philosophy can basically be summed up as
Is we stompin'? No
Is we shootin'? No
Is we lootin'? No
Then you iz muckin about!
Ork machinery is always a cobbled-together mess of contraptions that looks as if it's just as likely to kill the user as it is the enemy. Which in Orky eyes is a "deffo win" anyway. That includes the aforementioned Stormboyz (literally Orkz with giant rockets strapped to their backs).
I picked the worst time to stop playing too, I'll finish it, I promise.
Busy bee?
According to the steam page, yes they are listed as both developer and publisher for Stacking and Costume Quest.
Reposting for a new page.
EDIT: I feel like an ass, it was pointed out to me that Mafia II is on sale on GMG for $7.50 right now. Oops! This is why I am not big into the trading scene.
http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-DEHR/deus-ex-human-revolution-?caff=3884871
that is right where i am now in the campaign and boy does it seem like the difficulty ramped up a lot
This is how terrible terrible arguments get started.
But also if they paint their rockets yellow, they make bigger explosions, and if they paint things red, they go faster. Argument is always how, between subconscious messaging, mass hysteria, group psychology and psychic paint.
Space orks are awesome.
I want a sequel to space marine, where you just play like 4-5 orks constantly running for your life away from 1 space marine chasing you down. Although that kind of turns into overlord and probably wouldn't be fun.
AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!! I'll buy any PC game with "WH40K" on it.
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I think they had some financial help with getting it onto Steam from the CEO of XE.com. Giant Bomb did an article about him a few weeks ago. Seems like a cool guy.
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What an outrageously British, yet informative post.
Steam ID: Good Life
You and Handgimp alone during the summer sale I bet.
First off, fuck that criteria; at least you're allowed to pause it. Second, I got so close, then died. It rekindled my interest in the multilpayer though, and I jumped on and did a couple of exterminatus battles. I really wish you could do the multiplayer mission unlocks in those.
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Oh god, I can't wait for the summer sale. I haven't spread nearly enough love games lately. I'm getting withdrawal shakes.
It's decent enough. It gets a bit repetitive and the combat system is not at all deep as it pretends to be (it even has the presumption of including combo lists for individual weapons as more sophisticated brawlers like DMC does, but you'll notice every single combo string is exactly the same -- attack1 from 1-3 times finished by attack2). The story is dumb, predictable bullshit. Though, if you're a WH40K nerd, you'll probably enjoy it that much more.
The multiplayer is a messed-up lagfest on the best of days.
Steam ID: Good Life
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Alan Wake is OK but not great. Very pretty, and the environment design is great. The story and writing has a particular style which you may or may not enjoy: it's over the top King stuff, like how Max Payne was over the top Noir stuff.
On the other hand, the level design is pretty bland, it's basically just all corridors. The combat is pretty bland, enemies basically have armour and health, you need to use one weapon to lower armour before you use another to lower health. It's a decent concept but not enough to carry the whole game. There's no melee weapon, or anything with infinite uses, which means if you run out of ammo you're stuck. Which means they throw ammo at you before and after every fight, but strictly limit your max ammo. It feels like a very artificial and awkward way to create supply-related tension. Periodically they will take all your guns away and set you back to the starting weapons, so don't save up those shotgun rounds for too long. The collectables are silly and artificially lengthen game time. The story is perpetually vague and meaningless.
I recommend playing it, because it's enjoyable, but it's not like Vampire: the Masquerade earlier where the answer was "buy it buy it buy it no matter what".
Let me put it to you this way.
I'm working on becoming the ruling lord of all the British Isles, starting from Ireland (this is a pretty common start for new players, actually, because starting in backwater Ireland gives you a chance to learn the game without being overwhelmed; anyway ...).
About three generations ago, I goofed, and got my second-in-line-to-the-throne married matrilineally to a Castillian duchess (e.g., his kids with her will count as her family, not mine; if your family isn't in power, game over for you). My firstborn son ended up suffering a horrible shaving accident while hunting and also he choked on his dinner, making the second son my heir, and just a few in-game weeks later, I died, and took over as my son. At this point, if my son dies, it's game over for me, because my son's heir is his son with his Castillian wife. So, in order to prevent a game-over situation, I had to kill off my wife - which made my son inherit all her holdings - and then *him*, which made my character's Castillian daughter his heir - so *she* had to be shuffled off the mortal coil a little early, too. That, finally, cleared the inheritance chain for my character (and gave him some sweet holdings in former Castille and also two in France, of all places), giving him a chance to get married (normally, this time!) to a second wife, and hope to goodness that they managed to produce a kid before someone killed him.
Oh yeah, and right after I found the second wife, I realized he was gay, which drastically lowers your chance of having kids. For some reason.
Luckily, the new bride was Lustful (which makes her easier for the Pope to excommunicate), and they had a couple kids before the Gay King of Ireland bit the dust.
Thirty years later, I pulled the same trick in reverse to steal the northern almost-half of England from the English crown by marrying the Irish heir to an English woman who had, somehow, managed to inherit control of 4 major English duchies and a half-dozen unrelated counties, while having the Intrigue score of a frozen fish.
By bad marriage planning, I almost lost the game. By good marriage planning (and several thousand angry swordsmen), I've put myself 2 territories away from usurping the crowns of England and Scotland to add to my Irish and Welsh ones. Meanwhile, I've been expanding the Irish holdings in Spain at the cost of their Muslim overlords, spreading the Catholic faith to those benighted provinces, putting down the odd rebellion or three, and trying to figure out a way to convince France to break up into a dozen tiny pieces because, somehow, the French king got control of a barony in Barcelona and dammit that should be mine because Barcelona is mine you fool.
It's [one of] the most accessible long-form strategy game I've ever played, and while I have minor quibbles from time to time, it's some of the most fun I've had computer gaming in the past couple years. Even the missteps lead, in X-Com fashion, to entertaining stories.
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]
Playing as Spain, I assassinated the King of France about 3 times over 50 years, and all this instability of unready princes becoming king had led to a bunch of independence wars and torn the country up a bit. Making it a great time to claim the crown for my own.
The patient thing to do would be marry my son to a French princess. When he had kids, those kids would have a claim to the throne, and I could either press his claim and eventually inherit, or just wait until I was playing as him and press it myself.
Being impatient, I married my son to a French princess. When he had kids, I assassinated the princess, so her claim to the throne passed to the kid. I declared war on France, pressing my grandson's claim to the throne, so I could install him as King. When I won, I assassinated him, and since he was 0 years old he hadn't had kids, so the next in line was my son. I killed my son, who had no surviving kids so I was his heir, and thus managed to win the crown of France for myself.
Another story: One of my dukes was really powerful. I had a bunch of vassals under me, but held little land myself, and this guy was more powerful than me. If he called others to his cause he possibly could have ousted me. Also he hated me, so he was going to rebel eventually. If I just kill or imprison him, the next in line will inherit and I'll have the same problem. If I try to weaken him he'll instantly rebel. So instead, I make a diplomatic peace offer, marrying my son to one of his daughters. He had about 8 kids. I then killed his wife and all his other kids, so that his daughter was his only surviving relative, and waited for her to have a kid, leaving the duke himself alive and free for the time. Once she had a kid though, I killed her, and then finally, his bloodline wiped out, I killed the Duke. Everything he owned went to my son's child, and I slowly broke it up into smaller pieces so that no individual would ever have the strength to stand up to me again.
In case it's not obvious, I've been focusing on the Intrigue part of the game, assassinating my problems away, and it's worked amazingly.
And I review all them games. I'm denting that sweet backlog o' mine.
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My dearest Elvenshae,
Fuck you for this post. The game has been added to my Wishlist and is now in my thoughts more often than it should be. Having just watched the first season of "Game of Thrones" this game play really has me all a titter. May you rot in hell.
Lovingly,
Banzai "the weak willed" 5150
Steam ID: Good Life
Answering Kafka's Q in a moment, but ...
At one point in my game, I got an event wherein the Barons of a territory I controlled were asking for Primae Noctis rights. I had the option of allowing it, which made them happier and increased the peasant revolt risk, or disallowing it, which pissed them off (but didn't really make the peasants much happier, IIRC).
I said "No," because fuck the barons, and I don't want to deal with William Wallace in my backfield when I've got continually revolting Muslims in the south of Spain to deal with.
Steam: Elvenshae // PSN: Elvenshae // WotC: Elvenshae
Wilds of Aladrion: [https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/43159014/#Comment_43159014]Ellandryn[/url]